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Category: Ezra Pound

  • ALL sides defeated. WWI and TTOTT.

    The Great War (not so great in my humble opinion) has been an ongoing part of my study into the tale of the tribe, pivoting on the poetry and prose of Ezra Pound and James Joyce, who both lived through WW1, and who both lost friends.

    I understand, and respect why we have a period of silence in memory of those fallen, but i fail to understand why so few of the silent care to engage in the search for the main causes of war, or pay much attention to those who are brave enough to go there, into the complexity of the deep politics of war. To exhibit constructive criticism of authority, the industrial political economic war machine, those who make the guns and bombs and bullets, and sell them. And the apathy of the public, the sleeping masses who seem hoodwinked into supporting this monstrous killing machine in the name of patriotism. Or at least, not yet motivated to stand proud and say I AM AGAINST WAR, ALL WAR. And in saying that, imply a favour for life over death, compassion and sympathy, not hate and retribution.

    I favour an interconnected global network of co-operative humanity, not annexed and isolated sovereign states fighting over material wealth, atoms, oil and arms. Like weasels fighting in a hole, as Willy Yeats described war.

    Maybe…lets remember all our ancestors, ALL of them, and their struggles in a life lived against all the odds to bring us here. Stop the wars for our futures present sake. Stop the arms dealers. Or perhaps sign a petition, or star speaking out against the trident nuclear submarine plans? “Its a pity that ALL nations couldn’t be defeated”–Ezra Pound, letter to James Joyce concerning the slaughter of WW1

    A memorable line lifted from the Roman poet Horace, and used by the British Poet Winifred Owen: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” sounds to me, today, like the mantra of a maniac suicide bomber. What do you think? “1,2,3,4 what are we fighting for?”–Country Joe. As Ez wrote: the youth of WW1 have died “For an old bitch gone in the teeth, / For a botched civilization, / … / For two gross of broken statues, / For a few thousand battered books.” Peace means peace. Man! Look into the causes of war to oppose escalations of war. And yes, make room to honor the dead, all of them on all sides, love all the people. There is a time for silence and a time to speak. I suspect we could do with some more strong anti-war voices, poets, artists and perhaps a politician or two? with a basis in humanitarian principles, no fear, and a whole lot of luck. Fear leads to hate, as Yoda said. Yes mate. Steve Fly

  • BBC Radio 3: The Trial Of Ezra Pound

    BBC Radio 3, Sunday, 20 Jul 2008, 21:30.
    “To mark 2008’s 50th anniversary of his release, historian Sean Street investigates how Ezra Pound, one of the 20th century’s most important poets, was accused of treason by the US Government and held for years in a mental hospital after he made a series of anti-American and anti-Semitic broadcasts in Italy.
    The programme investigates the significance of the case today, asking whether he committed treason or inconveniently used his right to free speech. With contributions from Pound’s daughter Mary de Rachewiltz, his biographer David Moody and the playwright Bernard Kops, who wrote a play about Pound, in order to find out how we should view the complex and controversial poet.”

  • Plunder or preservation? How Asian art came to U.S.

    ‘America’s involvement with China goes back to the late 18th century, when Yankee ships began to trade fur pelts and wheat (and later opium) for tea, silks and dishware. As early as 1845-1847, Boston presented the “Great Chinese Museum.”

    Harvard University trained and underwrote many early explorers of China’s cultural and archaeological heritage. The 19th century scholar Ernest Fenollosa traveled to the East, converted to Buddhism, oversaw the Oriental section at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and wrote an essay on the Chinese written character which inspired Ezra Pound’s translations.–http://hamptonroads.com/2015/03/plunder-or-preservation-how-asian-art-came-us

  • …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    …on music and poetry and poetry and music on…

    by Steve Fly

    “Omniverse / Is / The totality / Of / All the universes / And you / Are welcome / To / Be citizens / Of / The Omniverse–Sun Ra, Omniverse.

     

    “Rhythm…is the first formal esthetic relation of any part to part in any esthetic whole or of an esthetic whole to its part or parts or of any part to the esthetic whole of which it is a part.–James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)

    To this drummer/blogger, music and poetry share common parenting in the human universe. For example the 8 fingers and 2 thumbs, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth and lungs of the majority of humans on earth create a basis and foundation for the human arts. The infinite potential of human hardware, the body, linked up with the infinite potential of the human software, mind, exhibited together in the spacetime flux of sound and symbol can heal the human condition and help the individual get a taste for freedom, and a little regiment.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    (more…)

  • Nunn ArisTTOTTelian

    Pound & Joyce supplement each other
    like Jefferson & Adams
    each created a NEW non-aristotelian
    language
    for the tale of the tribe–Robert Anton Wilson,
                tale of the tribe, 2005. (Maybe Logic Academy Class)

  • Japanese Noh Play: Chant and music (from wikipedia)

    Chant and music

    Hayashi-kata (noh musicians). Left to right: taiko, ōtsuzumi (hip drum), kotsuzumi (shoulder drum), flute.

     

    Noh theatre is accompanied by a chorus and a hayashi ensemble (Noh-bayashi 能囃子). Noh is a chanted drama, and a few commentators have dubbed it “Japanese opera“. However, the singing in Noh involves a limited tonal range, with lengthy, repetitive passages in a narrow dynamic range. Clearly, melody is not at the center of Noh singing. Still, texts are poetic, relying heavily on the Japanese seven-five rhythm common to nearly all forms of Japanese poetry, with an economy of expression, and an abundance of allusion. The singing parts of Noh are called “Utai” and the speaking parts “Kataru”.[7]

    The chant is not always performed “in character”; that is, sometimes the actor will speak lines or describe events from the perspective of another character or even a disinterested narrator. Far from breaking the rhythm of the performance, this is actually in keeping with the other-worldly feel of many Noh plays, especially those characterized as mugen.

    Noh hayashi ensemble consists of four musicians, also known as the “hayashi-kata”. There are three drummers, which play the shime-daiko, ōtsuzumi (hip drum), and kotsuzumi (shoulder drum) respectively, and a shinobue flautist.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh#Chant_and_music

  • tale of the tribe and the sirius mystery

    The tale of the tribe contact high.

    Fuck off, and welcome to another installment of my blog–a tale of the tribe–that aims to offer a resource of specific information related to the great complex and generally hidden project (unfinished) tale of the tribe, by the late Robert Anton Wilson.

    Since a recent positive explosion of interest in Robert Anton Wilson across the United Kingdom due, in part to the brilliant book by John Higgs about the the KLF featuring much RAW wisdom and context for a UK audience. Plus, the Cosmic Trigger stage play looks to make agents sweat when it launches in Liverpool, November 23rd 2014. Revisiting Cosmic Trigger the book, the current author was bowled over again by gazillions of new connections, and a new deeper love for RAW and his life story, and a willingness to look at the tale of the tribe from a new angle, which sets the basis of the following piece of writing i gathered onto the paper page a few hours ago, here in Vondel Park, Amsterdam.

    Fire!
    x

    pg. 1

    TTOTT and the Sirius mystery

    what if
    RAWs great unfinished symphony
    the tale of the tribe
    were more than a guide to 13 of
    the greatest human minds
    who helped humanity find
    peace
    through communication

    what if
    TTOTT
    were also a guide to contacting
    higher intelligences
    from alternate dimensions
    or wherever
    what if the tale of the tribe
    were really a key
    to the sirius mystery
    and itself a cosmic trigger?

    pg. 2

    take Girodano Bruno
    his new languages
    for new communications with
    higher intelligence
    development of angelic languages
    so called

    foundations of
    enochian vision magick
    contemporary with John Dee and
    Edward Kelly

    maybe
    Bruno and his works hold keys
    to early contact with E.Ts
    angels entities as you wish
    and denizens of the sirius
    triple star system

    strange holy guardian angels
    but somehow
    communicating through timespace
    through the nervous system of
    Robert Anton Wilson
    into the tale of the tribe
    a modern critique
    of scripture
    holy binding contractual poetic
    does it work?

    pg. 3

    Yeats Joyce and Pound
    also made
    contact
    in some sense with higher
    intelligence
    some might say muse
    others artistic inspiration
    but what

    if Yeats…
    (a butterfly landed with all six mittens onto
    the page while writing this
    two antenna
    deep burnt orange and woody
    choco’ brown hairs with dashes of
    white)

    what if
    William Butler Yeats
    picked up on the magickal hermetic
    current and methods for contacting
    higher intelligence
    either from his own study of Bruno
    Dee Kelly Ficino
    or

    from Aleister Crowley
    the great beast
    who diligently practiced
    enochian magick

    pg. 4

    and so
    maybe Yeats passed on the
    invisible bug or knowledge
    a tiny magickal starseed
    to his associates
    James Joyce and
    Ezra Pound?

    the Chinese written character
    and ancient imagist sensibility
    in resonance with contacting
    higher intelligence
    how did that language strike up from the past?

    (contact between the widow of
    American scholar of Japanese arts and
    oriental culture: Ernest
    Fenollosa and Ezra Pound cc. 1912)

    the hermetic current
    tirelessly innovating culture
    art and science with
    humanitas

    pushing out beyond language
    into total communication
    magick keys to open invisible doorways
    geometry poetry mathematics
    and good will

    pg. 5

    and a will to power
    to the people
    special languages of poetry
    to awaken the reader
    to the ignorance in knowledge
    firm trust in the universe to provide
    flying on the wings of
    imagination

    what if
    contact with higher intelligence
    disguises itself as creative impulse
    and the spark of ingenuity?

    Joyce and Pound each
    made a revolution in
    communications scripture
    and systems

    a good guide to contacting your
    own deeper shadow self
    your private muse
    angel
    or sirian servant
    invoked for good intentions
    on behalf of all around the world
    humanity
    a doorway for friendly ET intervention
    ummm…

    pg. 6

    deeper still we have
    the Polish genius who contacted
    higher intelligence through the
    intensive work and innovation of
    language:
    general semantics

    a refinement of language structure
    toward a science of meaning
    contact with multiple entities
    a lesson for self centered
    naive realists
    in non-Aristotelian language systems
    of limited communications
    Alfred Korzybski

    key to magickal workings
    a 20th century extension of core
    hermetic wisdom
    scientifically presented as
    a system

    deployed by William S. Burroughs
    a possible way to interpret the nova mob
    practiced and mastered by
    Robert Anton Wilson himself
    the epic vortex
    of imagination and good
    willed humour

    pg. 7

    what if
    Buckminster Fuller were a
    primary key figure to
    understanding and making use of the
    hermetic wisdom in
    contacting higher intelligence

    innovation of geometry
    so as to benefit all humanity
    design science revolution
    in the hermetic tradition
    not for weapons of war
    but knowledge systems and new
    communications languages
    for peace

    toward universal abundance
    of technology in the
    minds of the people
    the natural abundance of
    carbon 60
    or bucky balls
    throughout the universe

    serious cosmic economics
    extraterrestrial technology
    and contact
    through the medium of geometry
    maybe some Giordano Bruno
    wisdom
    geodesics and dymaxion
    architecture for the people
    buckyballs and the mad
    carbon 60 mystery of the
    universe:
    ubiquity of c60 throughout it!

    pg. 8

    what if
    the father of information sciences
    and the mathematical theory of
    communication
    Claude Shannon
    were perceived as another
    unforeseen link to opening the
    invisible doorways through which
    higher intelligence
    crept

    to lead much of humanity in 2014
    into contact
    with everybody and everything
    imaginable:
    the global internet of things

    a basically hermetic ideaspace:
    shared knowledge and a
    scientific tool for discovery
    and information processing
    and
    feedback

    Shannon dangles keys
    to as yet undiscovered
    rooms without walls
    mind boggling complexity
    negentropy
    building a new cypher language
    to help deduce and evaluate
    information
    through innovating the equations
    binary electrical switching circuit
    contact

    pg. 9

    what if
    the tale of the tribe
    by Robert Anton Wilson
    defines another order of
    methods and systems
    required for any thinking individual
    who really wants to make contact
    with higher intelligence
    here it is
    cosmic trigger
    study it

    and with luck ideas and inspiration
    may emerge to lift up humanity
    and instigate newer and faster
    technological innovations
    of the living
    livingry

    once contact is established
    how the to ask
    a meaningful question
    how to interpret the information

    quantum mechanics
    and taoism
    both
    systems for deeper study
    on contemplating a holy
    guardian angel
    entity
    shadow self
    how to?

    pg. 10

    magickal workings in the
    enochian language seem
    to me to be more effective
    way to contact higher intelligence
    without tears
    with good reason healthy skepticism
    and a playful soul

    based upon evidence from
    RAWs books such as Cosmic Trigger vol. 1
    and from RAW himself in my interviews
    i now feel today that
    there exists a particular contact
    procedure
    based on RAWs experiments detailed in his
    book
    methodology that includes
    magickal occult ceremony
    and tantric rituals
    together with strange drugs

    Aha
    i hear the skeptic shout accusingly
    drugs!
    i knew it
    all this babble about contact and angels
    he’s high on acid

    well yes what you thought
    the psychedelic experience
    mimics the magickal experience
    and the experience of art too
    getting beyond language
    into epiphany and cosmic coincidence
    or better yet synchronicity

    pg. 11

    to innovate the priest craft
    while keeping two feet
    grounded on earth
    in the sewer
    maybe the message from the stars
    seeds is to evolve and mutate?
    get back to the primary source of
    a kind of
    decentralized (Bruno)
    perception

    unlimited and unbounded by belief
    beliefs unlimited
    freedom of thought
    as Crowley and Leary
    and Philip K. Dick demonstrated

    we are not alone but
    surrounded by a network of sentient
    beings
    a love macrocosm
    teaming with life and things to
    communicate and
    probably not in english

    simply tune in
    RAW tuned in while also turned on
    and quickly got dialled into
    sirius.raw broadcasting network 23

    since getting in touch
    RAW crafted ingenious magickal
    communication devices
    or books
    utilized to help
    other make contact
    and possibly take the plunge and
    attempt the tale of the tribe
    for themselves

    pg. 12

    TTOTT
    a modern verse epic
    an epic including history
    a global epic for the entire
    human race
    from the perception of
    an individual stuck in time
    space

    a spirited attempt to
    redeem oneself from the
    mostly violent
    wreckage of history
    the history of men
    empire warfare greed
    and nightmare bushit’ whirl

    a new book of the day
    contact for all who read
    to provoke freedom of thought
    and sympathy and forgiveness
    for all mankind

    the gods never left us’
    we must knuckle down and
    create this kind spirit of open
    communication for all entities
    both gods and insects
    we must become the
    magick
    we wish to see manifest
    in the word/world

    pg. 13

    two examples of
    the tale of the tribe
    the cantos of Ezra Pound
    &
    Finnegans Wake by James
    Joyce

    both epic and encyclopedic
    global
    tragic comic
    multi lingual
    crated a whole new style
    ideogrammic prose
    hologrammic prose

    both in the hermetic tradition
    heavy on math
    geometry and esoteric symbol
    systems innovated and
    unified in the minds of
    the people who read them

    keys to holding a kind sanity
    in the facebook of a
    pop culture apocalypse
    love and light of acknowledgement
    that nothing is what it first appears to be

    pg. 14

    and slowness is beauty
    good access to the data for all
    helps build a clearer picture
    global webnet search engines
    unleash much occulted information and
    wisdom hidden within the cantos
    and the wake
    even today

    and so the global
    hermetic revolution is underway
    and has been for thousands of years
    artists
    scientists
    hackers
    magicians

    untied against fundamentalist
    materialists
    religious and scientific dogma
    state sponsored bully boy tactics

    and against mean spirited
    greedy actions for the exclusive
    benefit of the few

    a planet spaceship earth
    with 7.6 Billion passengers
    using over 750 languages
    requires a certain sympathetic
    and tolerant individual
    who attempts unity in verse
    including history
    without loosing sight of
    the guiding principle of compassion
    and kindness for all sentient beings

    –Steve Fly Agaric 23
    Amsterdam. 6.50 P.M, 11th June, 2014.


    (on my way back from the park this afternoon i made a decision that when i got home i would google “Yeats and “butterflies” to see what might turn up. Of course, in 1934 Yeats wrote a drama titled ‘Wheels and Butterflies’ adding some spice to this mini-drama unfolding within a drama triggered by a butterfly landing on my open page as i wrote the word Yeats.)

  • Certain Noble Plays of Japan.

    Title: Certain Noble Plays of Japan
           From The Manuscripts Of Ernest Fenollosa

    Author: Ezra Pound

    Commentator: William Butler Yeats

    “All imaginative art keeps at a distance and this distance once chosen must be firmly held against a pushing world. Verse, ritual, music and dance in association with action require that gesture, costume, facial expression, stage arrangement must help in keeping the door. Our unimaginative arts are content to set a piece of the world as we know it in a place by itself, to put their photographs as it were in a plush or a plain frame, but the arts which interest me, while seeming to separate from the world and us a group of figures, images, symbols, enable us to pass for a few moments into a deep of the mind that had hitherto been too subtle for our habitation. As a deep of the mind can only be approached through what is most human, most delicate, we should distrust bodily distance, mechanism and loud noise–Certain Noble Plays of Japan.
    http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8094/8094-h/8094-h.htm

  • Astral Projective Verse: Olson, Ophiel and Sun Ra

     

    Astral Projective Verse

    By Steve Fly Agaric 23

    For Eric Wagner and John Sinclair. Thanks for inspiring these wild speculations which are really notes that shall be reshuffled into a more coherent whole at some future point.

    Sounds Fly: Music Writing

    by Steven James Pratt et al.

    Link: http://a.co/9OHmjhJ

    (more…)

  • Fungal Economics (2007) by Fly Agaric 23

    Fungal Economics
    branching words and
    money walk

    the shit into our future
    your words
    our words and their
    words of air-sound-sutra

    why is money and
    how did it get all stinky
    who issues it and how?
    a coin for a cow
    paper for gold
    our money their money
    overnight

    who has the magic wands
    the words and the rite
    disorder of things and stuff
    multi-ordinal terms fed to
    herds like worms to morning
    birds

    credit/debit digit edit
    where is the source
    the root and sacred well
    spring of your knowledge
    our nohledge and their
    scholedge
    who issues shit

    and how holy dung
    holy chao
    money exchanged
    for words language and
    economics co-ming-ling

    honey does not grow on trees
    the bees bring it to each
    branch
    the river bank connect
    with moon goddess via
    the rising and falling water
    levels

    make every river bank
    a bank you can trust
    and the fungi
    facts decompose rotten
    money theory

    a natural fungi force
    consumes carbon dioxide
    and releases carbon
    monoxide

    like wise a new natural
    economic order will

    start with fungi
    and mycelium as the
    fiscal roots and financial
    fibers that in the buginning
    fed

    all the money by
    the process of decomposing
    using smart drugs
    depreciating truffle skins

    the truly regenerative and
    maximum interests inherent in the
    fungal feeding
    of the planetary and
    inter-planetary bio-sphere
    make most but not all forms
    of banking and international
    financial doings on this planet
    seem deceptive

    at best and damned sadistic
    and apocalyptic at worst
    new webworking tools
    help to communicate more
    scientifically how and
    why mycelium networks
    have spread into earths biosphere

    in turn the field of fungal
    economics seems less
    of a joke to me
    and more of a biological
    fact observable in nature

    for fly this fungal
    economic reorder fits with
    the animal and plant kingdom
    and the propensity for doing more
    with less

    and maximizing information
    output to the benefit of all
    no dropping carcass seed
    or shell left behind not
    even zero is wasted

    the whole biological spaceship
    earth recycles energy freely
    between species and
    kingdoms of living systems

    some very influential humans
    on the other hand seem to
    have a propensity for hoarding
    life support
    in all its forms

    for a few chosen people
    or a few International syndicates
    at the expense of the many
    –the Majority of humanity on
    planet earth

    who issues it and how
    what is money and how did
    it get that way, to paraphrase Ez

    the fungal metaphor
    maybe the most eloquent
    and beautiful metaphor to
    employ in 2008

    pitched against unrestricted
    global capitalism driven
    by private interest and
    crooked double crossed
    intelligence tsars

    depreciating currency
    imitates the fungal process of
    breaking down biological matter
    making more room at the
    bottom by recycling

    transform and keep the process
    moving along
    if you stay in one place too
    long with your savings

    chemical compound interest
    you will rot at the bottom of the pile
    without jumping into a new
    state of energy

    by the magic transform process
    see transbutation
    holy communion and
    the u.s fed bank of england

    the deception and trickery
    of the global banking
    fraud-gamer community
    is also mimicked

    on a global scale within
    fungal communities
    in fact mushroom myceilium
    germinate those very orchids
    that so many banksters
    are infatuated with

    even penicillin and all its
    synthesized relatives
    are fungal entities
    claimed patented and
    exploited by global pharmo
    corporations

    the dream-drug in its
    penicillin incarnation
    fungal intelligence
    has already penetrated the
    money maze

    not to mention all the
    other medical applications
    and drugs synthesized
    from mushrooms and/or
    fungal bacterium

    but the poet with mould-money
    and mushrooms spilling
    from his mouth does not stop
    here

    mushrooms and fungus
    metaphors deployed to
    synergize human
    financial intelligence

    just the sprouting tip
    of a swarming underground
    body of evidence

    sometimes sprout a fruiting
    bodyblog and spilling
    billions of its viral meme
    spores into earths atmosphere
    every second of every day
    for a billion years to come

    once the poet has sharpened
    his gaze and the haze of terrestrial
    primate politics and economics
    has vanished in the maze

    we can begin to revision
    our future past present perfect
    days all-at-once

    an enpsychlopedia Fungi
    galactica a languaging entity
    a self-replicating fungal blogject
    spore of the words

    money and wind and
    seeds and stars all-at-once

    –fly agaric 23.
    Amsterdam.

    Footsauce:

    Giles Chase: Shanigums Wave, Oillyseas, Publiners, A Sculpture of the Banker as an old man, Excommunicated and the albums Ballads and Strange Folk. Epiphenome’. Faben & Faben.
    Ira Pod: The Dantales, ABS of Revolutions, 17 Stereotypes of Damnbiguation. Videoglyphic method. History is not a dream from which I am trying to awake. No Direction Press.
    Martin McLure: The Gutterverb Autopsy, Misunderstanding Money, The road to Shennanigums Wave
    James Shermon: Mystical doctrine of sports and greedy behavior
    Nesta Venossa: The Wildstyle Grafitti Character as a Medium for Math.
    J. Nathan Shaft: Skully Von’s Travels.
    Sonny Cob Laughlin: Blooming Magnus Trilogy, Neuro-Trigger, Flasks of the really hot tea, The Windows Sunshine, BOG: Bogus Occupation Government, Quantum Theology,
    Ali Fowley: The Book of flies, The book of the wall, poetry without tears, 111 and other writings.
    Jacky Muller: Nine Joints to the moon, Operating manual for Shennanigums Wave, Sin-Energy-Zetitics, On the Path, Planet Terry Sociology.
    Carson Wools: Citizen Murdoch, War of the Words, McGriff, C For Cake, Touch of Usury.
    Manfred Humanski: Religion and Insanity, General Pendantics, X’tenshun Method.

    –Steve Fly Agaric 23
    Amsterdam.
    Thursday, July 17, 2008/Saturday 11th January, 2014

    Steven James Pratt