QUOTIDIAN
THE RE-INVENTION OF LIFE
harrowing beautiful vital intense daring
rare 6 of 117 adjectives used to describe
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s books In Norway
he is such a sensation there are days when
discussing him is forbidden
After reading him Ian Brown wrote: (April 26 2014 Globe&Mail)
Childhood is the last time we live entirely
and happily within our inner selves It seems
that Karl depressed the shit out of Ian Or was
Ian already depressed? Was Karl?
I have read short tracts I will not read the thousands
of pages Apparently 573 chronicle the banality of
marital domesticity & a bowel movement or 2
What I will do:
* sit in front of a tree planted in ’63 & remember when it was a twig
* conjure the cornstalks that grew & grew 10ft. tall a pall over suburbia
* remember that the Magnolias will be bare in 2 weeks time
* ditto the Chinese Cherry trees (Trinity Bellwoods Park &Robards Library)
For chrissakes choose any ditch & count the objécts found in it
Is the problem really that we replaced an all knowing God with
information? That there is no mystery?
None of this is true modern citydweller Do not buy into the propaganda
of depressed intellectuals Go plant some corn ride a horse pee in a field
Don’t let the purveyors of glum ruin your un-lived life Mostly don’t feel
like a failure when you cannot conjure the lightening of the first-time
That’s what first times were invented for Ian & Karl
I implore you gentle reader:
lick a pole in January
work on your night moves
suck on a chili-dog
marry a Bedouin
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* Dazed quail.
**shortest sentence in The Alexandria Quartet L. Durrell 1958 3,200 pages
SPRING 2014
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