In the philosophical "engrenage" of poetics and the poetical "coulisses" of philosophy...the art of perceiving...
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram's TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Two by T. Wignesan
"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an awareness of the imaginative possibilities of relationship between particles".
Eric Mottram.
December 29, 1924 - January 17, 1995, prolific poet, editor of the Poetry Review (organ of The Poetry Society in England during the seventies), eminent critic (Times Literary Supplement) and Emeritus Professor of English and American Literature at King's College, University of London in 1990. He won a scholarship from Blackpool Grammar School to Cambridge, but chose to join the Royal Navy in 1943. He obtained a Double First in English Tripos (1947-1950) at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, after serving out the War as second-in-command of a mine-sweeper in the Baltic and the Bay of Bengal. Just for the anecdote, his family traces its descent from the times of the Norman Conquest as " Lords of the Manor " on his father's side. His father was a civil servant who worked to put in place Britain's social security system. Once in 1964, Eric showed me - somewhat diffidently - the family's Coat of Arms, saying : " Do you know what this is ? ", and I never (for a while) stopped kidding him about it all. The real reason why he didn't take up the posts offered (to) him in the States - such as a professorship at Rutgers - was that he was very proud of being " British " ; yet he owed his post at London University to an American : Professor Robert Earnest SPILLER who authored The Literary History of the United States (1948).
The following translation is the second part of "Time Sight Unseen", published in The Poetry/Rare Books Collection, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993, n.p.
2
mais ce ..nous disons ce ..rappelez
.qu'il revient .le trouvez rιel
..comme vous dites ce ne soit pas tout ΰ fait ce
sans ra ..pas d'instants instantanι mais
.il y aura quelques changements autour d'ici
..se trouvant immobile se couchant dans
..des endroits ΰ l'intιrieur des processus
la recette dont nous partageons pour
.le maintenant renouvelι
.par le non-visible
.mκme s'il n'est pas agrιable ΰ voir
.si l'on a du courage qu'il faut
la vue inaperηue c'est un syntagme ΰ apprιcier
que l'on se prononce complθtement .dites qu'il soit
..alors il est lΰ
un jaillissement qui provoque l'ιmerveillement
toujours les moyens qu'il utilise pour faire surgir
..des bonnes pressions inaperηues
..plus ardemment que de la propulsion
de l'eau des causes non-ιclaircies les distances
.connaissables mais toujours merveilleuses
le sens complet soumis ΰ l'examen
ainsi les temps n'ιtant pas susceptibles de tomber
dans la saletι
..revient ΰ l'esprit
..voilΰ l'engagement
..l'art ιternelle intronisιe sur notre rιtine
voyez ΰ l'extιrieur et de la perception
le dessin est partagι
comme la lumiθre dιrange
perturbe
la donne appelιe l'acte de vision
.pas ce qu'on voit une vision mais l'art
l'art d'apercevoir .l'oeil est un phιnomθne
..le moi est notre l'autre
..oeil pour regarder
nous sommes tous les deux en train de regarder une couleur
trembloter
dans un tableau rectangulaire
de laquelle elle surgisse
.en dehors envers
.tβchez de la retenir maintenant
.au fur et ΰ mesure
.de l'intιrieur
............" pour combien de temps un oiseau peut chanter
..............aussi longtemps qu'il connaisse sa chanson
..............je veux te le dire
..............qu'un imbιcile peut se tromper "
Bonjour Ron ! You've said a mouthful there on the man, a rare κtre-humain ! A huge thanks in his memory. Incidentally, I saw your thesis-poem on punctuation. I feel either way does no great damage. I think it's merely a question of taste and one of breathing. Some prefer to be guided, others not. I prefer not to punctuate, leaving the syntax to adjust itself and allow for ambiguity. By the way, I wrote an eulogy on you, backing what you said on Sandie A's "Yeah, ........Already" and found it deleted instantly. Can she do that? I could try to recall what I wrote and re-post or send it to you directly, if you so wish. Every good wish.
This book presents a narrative story of one person's journey of transcendental Awakening and Enlightenment as guided by his two Sage companions. It is grounded in Zen Buddhist and Taoist perspective and uses the I Ching as its structural framework. T
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