So you went out to an unfamiliar Montauk searching for something other than yourself. But what did you hope to find in that particular wilderness... aside from an empty beach in February and a girl with ever-changing coloured hair? Her footprints spiral in the sand, yes, and they will happen to dissolve in a lost time as suddenly as they once appeared. This is the just way of it, as you all know, and those memories - those itemised Durkheimian totemic entities that you scrunch up your bleeding eyes so harshly for - well, they should just be put away for another time, I fear. And was there anything else to find out East, at the end of the forgotten line? This is not some game, you know, it's just a beginning and an ending wrapped into a drunken message where she screams at you, in a confusing, silent, apathetic rage, 'I've moved on, and so must you'.
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David Sylvian - 'Brilliant Trees' (acoustic and live, Berlin, 03-09-95) (3.49)
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Hard won wisdom. Over three years. Just erase me. Aye.
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Montauk is the one place I've been that I felt was the edge of the world.
ReplyDeleteI can only imagine. I might just need to make an effort to visit. And soak it all in.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite films ever...
ReplyDeletethree visits to wikipedia and that is a social fact!
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It's hard to watch, I find, but yes - a favourite as well.
ReplyDeleteYou've lost me SOTR. What? Why? Who? Explain yourself!
I think my life is turning into a Kauffman film. But not this one. This is too beautiful. As are your words, Colin. As ever.
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ReplyDeleteas i am not within the inner sanctum of sociology nerds but very inquisitive what other means have i to understand the term Durkheimian totemic entities than the ever reliable wikipedia hey i had also not got a fecking clue where in the world montauk is thus more wiki do you think emile would consider wiki a social fact ?
son of the rock
ps word verification was cosmic how weird was that
SOTR, my word verification was 'emile' for my last comment which is even weirder.. Alas, I fear you may have to Wiki Durkheim again to understand what I am referring to..
ReplyDeleteArgh, sorry, sorry, sorry. I slipped into jargon. A crime against all things C W Mills (essential reading: 'On intellectual craftmanship' - the appendix at the back of Sociological Imagination). But I fear even the WikiWiki sources would fail to compute the ramblings of me. And I don't mean that in a 'good' way. It just makes very little sense. But that's what watching 'Eternal Sunshine...' for the 357th time does to you. Not in a row but you ken mah drift, eh. Sigh.
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ReplyDeletefeel free to enter into the "jargon" as often as you wish the appeal of reading you is that your ramblings dont jump out of the screen easily and several re-reads and searches are needed to decipher you even then sometimes i can't but don't change it is a challenge i relish.
mulrine how cryptic of you i will indeed look again at durkheim there is in my opinion a very good page fron cardiff uni which appears in my search engine perhaps i will get you if i pour over it again
son of the rock