{"id":180,"date":"2007-01-05T21:18:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T03:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/?p=180"},"modified":"2022-05-17T23:11:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T04:11:50","slug":"its-fish-fry-friday-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/01\/05\/its-fish-fry-friday-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Fish Fry Friday folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Gottfriend Benn poem, this time from the collection <em>Statische Gedichte<\/em> (<em>Static Poems<\/em>), which originally came out in 1948 or so, after his publishing ban was lifted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wer allein ist &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Wer allein ist, ist auch im Geheimnis,<br \/>\nimmer steht er in der Bilder Flut,<br \/>\nihrer Zeugnung, ihrer Keimnis,<br \/>\nselbst die Schatten tragen ihre Glut.<\/p>\n<p>Tr\u00e4chtig ist er jeder Schichtung<br \/>\ndenkerisch erf\u00fcllt und aufgespeart,<br \/>\nm\u00e4chtig ist er der Vernichtung<br \/>\nallem Menschlichen, das n\u00e4hrt und paart.<\/p>\n<p>Ohne R\u00fchrung sieht er, wie die Erde<br \/>\neine andere ward, als ihm begann,<br \/>\nnicht mehr Stirb und nicht mehr Werde:<br \/>\nformstill sieht ihn die Vollendung an.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The day in review, bullet-point version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got up later than expected and enjoyed a cup of coffee before bussing to the library via the #4, aka the <em>short bus<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Spent several hours during the afternoon in the library, 4th floor East Asian Reading Room, which is still not that <em>busy<\/em> during the winter break. Christoph said he would be at the library, but I suspect he was elsewhere in the building doing his diss work.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t get through any Latin; I took my Basque book with me (Wim Jansen, author), but decided that I had more important things to do.<\/li>\n<li>The newest (I think) barista at Fair Trade (she was training there in November or such) still has a lot to learn. I asked for a cranberry fritter and got cherry. Still, it&#8217;s an improvement over the time she was unable to ring things up properly. I am reminded of the season 6 episode when Buffy starts a job at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doublemeat_Palace_%28Buffy_episode%29\">Doublemeat Palace<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The place was not quite deserted but still rather empty, perhaps 15%-20% full.<\/li>\n<li>I meant to draw, but instead I wrote and took notes. It&#8217;s a standard Friday night, so perhaps I&#8217;ll doodle this evening instead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am sort of looking forward to the beginning of the semester (still far away), but I would like to know whether my teaching position will pan out &#8230; will I teach 226 or will a section be cancelled? As usual, the department is a bit <em>slow<\/em> in letting us know &#8212; how can I write a syllabus, plan lessons, etc., when I do not even know whether I&#8217;ll be employed? I don&#8217;t want another fall-2006 situation, in which one week before classes began it was finalized what I&#8217;d be teaching &#8230; thus no time to plan for the semester, and, unfortunately, I feel my students got the short end of things as a result.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I wanted to do (if I teach this term) was add Berlin content as an overarching theme of some sort. A good deal of expressionist poetry is Berlin-related, which is nice. I recently (as in: today) acquired a good deal of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berlin_%28comics%29\">Berlin<\/a>, a comic\/graphic-novel by Jason Lutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Gottfriend Benn poem, this time from the collection Statische Gedichte (Static Poems), which originally came out in 1948 or so, after his publishing ban was lifted. Wer allein ist &#8212; Wer allein ist, ist auch im Geheimnis, immer steht &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/2007\/01\/05\/its-fish-fry-friday-folks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[123,109,116],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myspace","tag-basque","tag-buffy","tag-gottfried-benn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.universalem.org\/homo_aestheticus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}