tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post6970639420815381613..comments2023-12-05T03:34:14.680-05:00Comments on <b>Issa's Untidy Hut</b>: R. H. Blyth: Two Views of a Paper Lantern, Pen Nib, & Eel CatcherIssa's Untidy Huthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-64364814390164487632012-03-27T13:07:17.239-04:002012-03-27T13:07:17.239-04:00my friend, Chuck Sandy,
collects and restores old ...my friend, Chuck Sandy,<br />collects and restores old fountain pens<br /><br />(you know, those ones with the little rubber bladder in-side that holds the ing..<br />any way<br /><br />Chuck is a "nibmeister" .. (makes and repairs (pen) nibs)<br /><br />the nib is/was the tip of the pen like quill pens had<br />nibs cut into the feather<br /><br />I think only rich educated kings who signed things &<br />wrote important docs had these writing tools..Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-7076238374745514022012-03-27T03:31:17.945-04:002012-03-27T03:31:17.945-04:00Thanks, Don...as soon as I finish with the semeste...Thanks, Don...as soon as I finish with the semester I will write it. If it goes online I will let you know!Theresa Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103717736011804799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-47534278101243928712012-03-26T07:09:49.976-04:002012-03-26T07:09:49.976-04:00Theresa:
I'm queued up to read that essay ......Theresa:<br /><br />I'm queued up to read that essay ...<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-87296853020869018972012-03-26T07:09:14.159-04:002012-03-26T07:09:14.159-04:00Ed:
Her/His nibs were a regular part of the vocab...Ed:<br /><br />Her/His nibs were a regular part of the vocabulary round my house in the formative stages ... <br /><br />Always thought it some Irish/English moniker, but not finding it's origins anywhere - OED lists it as "obscure" with the example of his royal nibs.<br /><br />Hmn.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-70462360231728734842012-03-26T01:02:58.919-04:002012-03-26T01:02:58.919-04:00I first discovered Blythe here. There are only a ...I first discovered Blythe here. There are only a few books that I can say changed me in huge ways...Blythe's did! He showed me new ways to understand haiku. I plan to write an essay on this soon!Theresa Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00103717736011804799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-27676559660238672352012-03-25T13:03:03.619-04:002012-03-25T13:03:03.619-04:00speaking of "nibs"
I guess nobody "...speaking of "nibs"<br /><br />I guess nobody "to there"<br />remembers <br /> Georgia Gibbs ?<br /><br />whenever she played D.C.<br />in the 50's we'd go see her<br /><br />she was called:<br /> Her NIBS Georgia Gibbs<br /><br />I recall seeing her at the Capital Theater with Jimmy Durante<br /> they were the stage show after the movie<br /><br /> the orchestra rose up out of the pit<br />&<br /><br />POWOW !<br /><br />Her Nibs in the spot-light singing<br /><br />"If I knew you were coming<br /> I'd use baked you a cake .... "Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-68594866263404012172012-03-25T11:18:02.978-04:002012-03-25T11:18:02.978-04:00The squeaking of the nib. How true. Rather disco...The squeaking of the nib. How true. Rather disconcerting though.Charles Gramlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02052592247572253641noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-70481807072968474182012-03-25T07:53:05.540-04:002012-03-25T07:53:05.540-04:00also & et cetera
in Ross' book is
that fam...also & et cetera<br />in Ross' book is<br />that famous Will Petersen essay <br /> STONE GARDEN<br /><br />and of course<br />there are yet folks 'ou there' who <br />know Will & what he did for all<br /><br />two years before Nancy Ross' book<br />WP's essay was published in the first run (vol 1 no 4) of Evergreen Review (which I still have a copy of)<br /><br />Nancy Ross was among other things John Cage's teacher & friend wrote 5 or six novels & lots re: zen and Buddhism. am tracking back into her "stuff"<br /><br />also in her book a bunch of Paul Reos' 'stuff'<br />(pen-work and translations...)<br /><br />of course<br />there IS nothing like the feel and the smell of those first edition books<br /> by those<br /> First Edition People<br /><br />(you just might ask Gary Snyder about Will<br /> as GS got to Kyoto around just after Cid and Will got there...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-89852697159253744262012-03-25T07:24:25.990-04:002012-03-25T07:24:25.990-04:00Jose:
So glad to hear. Thanks for letting me kno...Jose:<br /><br />So glad to hear. Thanks for letting me know.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-9735839694237892352012-03-25T07:23:50.380-04:002012-03-25T07:23:50.380-04:00Ed:
The quotes you pulled from Nancy Wilson Ross ...Ed:<br /><br />The quotes you pulled from Nancy Wilson Ross all come from the first Blyth volume and are ones that I'd noted just recently.<br /><br />Prescient. So fine.<br /><br />And, yes, Save the Last Dance for Me. <br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-52242577283036456082012-03-25T07:20:58.126-04:002012-03-25T07:20:58.126-04:00Donna
As always, spot on. What follows from Ed u...Donna<br /><br />As always, spot on. What follows from Ed uncannily pulls some quotes from the first Blyth volume that I noted recently on reading through.<br /><br />More to come.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-73074018651755202522012-03-24T16:01:26.062-04:002012-03-24T16:01:26.062-04:00here
ap-rap-poe to this-all here/now dis
cussion ...here<br /><br />ap-rap-poe to this-all here/now dis<br />cussion another snippet via R.H. Blyth<br />out of that same Ross anthology (1960)<br /><br /> Kojisei wrote :<br /><br /> " Men know how to read printed books; they do not know how to read the unprinted ones. They can play on a stringed harp, but not on a stringless one. Applying themselves to the superficial instead of the profound, how should they understand music or poetry?"<br /><br /><br />is not this<br />Kojisei the guy who woke up to the sound of that temple bell,<br />saw the moon reflected in a puddle<br />&<br />instantly saw<br /><br />beyond his form<br />his real form ?<br /><br /><br />my besets inkling re: all of this "zen" is that<br /><br />the real-rality is nothing<br />more<br />&<br />noh thing less than<br /><br />what we do <br />from moment to moment ?<br /><br />so<br /><br />that a poem could be<br />a-got from this-all<br /><br />accidentally/spontaneously<br />thanks to UHAUL:<br /><br /><br />what I do<br />from moment to moment<br />Horse Shit !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-76232054826925481592012-03-24T13:17:11.877-04:002012-03-24T13:17:11.877-04:00I always leave your site a little deeper in though...I always leave your site a little deeper in thought. Thanks for the good work!<br /><br />Joseositoperdidohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16761825174349278087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-16024779728513668692012-03-24T12:06:09.035-04:002012-03-24T12:06:09.035-04:00just reading
last night
in Nancy Wilson Ross'...just reading<br />last night<br /><br />in Nancy Wilson Ross' The World of Zen<br />(an anthology that should be still in print) <br /><br /><br />another Blyth translation (of KOJISEI which <br />is something new to me):<br /><br /> "The song of birds, the voices of insects, are all means of conveying truth to the mind; in flowers and grasses we see messages of the Way. The scholar pure and clear of mind, serene and open of heart, should find in everything what nourishes him."<br /><br /><br />(by 'scholar' Kojesei/Blyth doesn't mean (our present) Academicians !Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5849270578857708223.post-19853582568265722952012-03-24T11:59:53.677-04:002012-03-24T11:59:53.677-04:00Those squeaks as direct a transcription as one cou...Those squeaks as direct a transcription as one could want; as the sun that makes its own image on the surface of a sheet of photographic paper in a photogram. Will read along with you in high expectation that you will share more findings from volume to volume and squeak to squeak by your remarkable pen. <br /><br />paper lantern<br />a squeaky nib<br />and the eel gets awayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com