...And Melt With You

[salimondo]

Depending on the situation, people find it either hilarious or profoundly inconvenient that I won't get a crackberry, cell phone or other mobile communications device, much less open up a simple automatic messenger window from time to time. Thanks to the vast but not infinite benevolence of the Internet (praise the Internet!), the unquiet shade of

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Looking for Something?

[lhasa7]

I recently picked up a 3-volume set reprinting Minotaure that Skira put out some time back. I also have a beat-up original copy of the first issue somewhere.

Re: Looking for Something?

[salimondo]

Yeah...I'm kind of curious about that Skira edition now that I hear there's at least one Ernst essay about the Forest series in it. How exciting are they??

Re: Looking for Something?

[lhasa7]

Given what I take to be your interests, I would expect you would find them worth looking at, if only in the library. I’m probably going to sell the reprint set I picked up, which is like new, for $450 or so plus postage (Ursus lists them for $975).

Hmmm

[salimondo]

I might eventually take you up on that, once I clear up a few loose ends elsewhere. Will keep checking the abe listing. Thanks!

not-doing

[breck403]

Thanks for the memory jog. The Forster story was quite good.

This part also sums it up well:

"To be inaccessible means that you touch the world around you sparingly. You don't eat five quail; you eat one. You don't damage the plants just to make a barbecue pit. You don't expose yourself to the power of the wind unless it is mandatory. You don't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people you love.

To be inaccessible does not mean to hide or to be secretive. It doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter uses his world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things or plants, or animal, or people, or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same world.

He is inaccessible because he's not squeezing his word out of shape. He taps it lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark."

sin pecadillo

[salimondo]

Thanks for reminding me of this other bit. One thing that's interesting in that particular passage is that Don Juan recognizes that warriors not only deal with people from within their inaccessibility, but apparently "love" certain people and not others. How funny!

I walked.

[ayrkain]

Once I lived outside. I slept in the corn and drank from the irrigation ditches. No boss, no money, no food. I called it "no footprint" in my mind, when I called it anything. I usually didn't because I focused on putting one in front of the other most of the time. Then I came back. Should one stay?

"Should"

[salimondo]

You're here now; even the memory of walking is a distinction these days.

Don Juan is very interesting on the subject of children.