“Psychologie”

“Psychologie”

Je suis un médecin qui dissèque les âmes,
Penchant mon front fièvreux sur les corruptions,
Les vices, les péchés et les perversions
De l’instinct primitif en appétits infâmes.

Sur le marbre, le ventre ouvert, hommes et femmes
Etalent salement dans leurs contorsions
Les ulcères cachés des noires passions.
J’ai palpé les secrets douloureux des grands drames.

Puis, les deux bras encor teints d’un sang scrofuleux,
Poète, j’ai noté dans mes vers scrupuleux
Ce que mes yeux aigus ont vu dans ces ténèbres.

Et s’il manque un sujet au couteau disséqueur,
Je m’étends à mon tour sur les dalles funèbres
Et j’enfonce en criant le scapel dans mon coeur.

I am the doctor who dissects souls,
Bending my feverish brow over corruptions,
The vices, the sins, and the perversions,
Of primitive instinct and its infamous hunger.

On the marble, with stomachs open, men and women
Spread out, nastily, with their contortions,
The hidden ulcers of black passions.
I have fingered the sore secrets of tragedies.

Then, with both arms still tinged with scrofulous blood,
Poet, I have noted in my scrupulous verse,
All that my sharp eyes have seen in the shadows.

And if a subject is lacking for the dissecting knife,
I stretch out, in my turn, on the funereal slab,
Screaming, as I jab the scalpel into my heart.

from La Jeune Belgique 5 (1886)

Photography

I just put up my Jesus Saves photo on the below website.

www.jpgmag.com/photos/1046808

If you enjoy and have time vote for it.

Wonderful

I can’t believe I just was introduced to the music of this man.

I find that my musical taste gravitate to things closer to just speaking and it becomes more and more like that each passing year.

I wonder if when i am 3o or so I will just listen to books on tape?

Speaking of check this out. Sarah Vowell reading her book:

http://www.amazon.com/Assassination-Vacation-Sarah-Vowell/dp/0743540050/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1220924819&sr=1-3
30 wont be that bad after all

though she has a new book out and she will be touring.

http://www.barclayagency.com/vowell_appearances.html

I most assuredly will be at the DC one.

Interview Sarah Vowell.

I used to have pictures of Lincoln/old maps of United States/and I wish a piece of John Brown.

Ed Rondthaler

This really puts the idea of simplification of language in a great way

Dr. Edward Rondthaler (born June 9, 1905 (103 years, 90 days) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), is a prominent typographist as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council. A long time resident of the village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Dr. Rondthaler became a centenarian in 2005.
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Ed Rondthaler received his first small printing press at the age of 5, thus starting his career in the graphic arts. Working in New York in the 1930s, he associated with Harold Horman of the Rutherford Machinery Co. Together they adapted a step-and-repeat machine (for texture and metal printing) for photographic lettering, and in 1936 founded Photo Lettering Inc.

In 1969, Ed Rondthaler associated with Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin in founding the International Typeface Corporation. For several decades, ITC furnished manufacturers of photographic, electronic and laser equipment, a plethora of superb typefaces.

In later life, Rondthaler became vividly interested in promoting the spelling reform of the English language as a means of fighting illiteracy. He is also an avid historian.