Date: 1976-11-26
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-11-05
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-11-05
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-01
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Blaser discussing the notion of duality in Egyptian cosmology as found in The Book of the Dead. He then goes on to speculate on the alterations in the relationships between the Egyptian gods. Further speculation is given to the results of Set; homosexual tendencies. Notion of duality. Blaser draws interesting assumption as he displays that Oasis is death from which life arises and Set is life from which death arises. As the relationship between the two gods deteriorates, Death becomes a visible…
Date: 1976-10-01
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Blaser's voice is heard in mid-sentence. Discussion of the text, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Blaser will be relying on. Apparent continuation of discussion on the Divine Falcon. A part of.enactment mythology 6 an enactment ritual in Egyptian myth Osiris, etc. "The cosmology'is still not entirely understood" Set & Isis are cited. Importance of Horus Igod/god-like figure in the text) not the poet. • • . . ' Movement towards Death in Egyptian mythology; Principle of passage. Osiris arising to…
Date: 1976-10-13
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-13
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-15
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-15
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Blaser begins discussion on Jack Spicer and the concept of "pure language". Pure language being that which involves "us" in polarities and opposites. Blaser draws a link from confusion to sexuality to language, making reference to past lectures and the Osiris myth of Kingship. Discussion on the mythological language of "Theogony", a poem, mentions Blaser, that "is extremely difficult to interpret", yet this is, in many ways, why he chose to include it in the seminar, especially for its broken…
Date: 1976-10-20
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-22
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: NOTE: At a specific point in the tape the speed changes, hence the counter numbers alter. The new counter numbers are indicated in brackets for awhile and then they take the place of the previous counter numbers. Technology has nasty habits also. Tape breaks in on Blaser's voice reading an article/selection on the nature of contemporary poetry with vague references to deep-seated "truth";"that the life that one lives is practically the condition of poetry...rather than the poetic life being a…
Date: 1976-10-22
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Tape begins with Blaser discussing the need to find a vocabulary fitting for investigation of 'the primary world'. Homer & Hesiod & the defense of divinity in the social world. Hesiod as a progression over Homer, Hesiod touted as the more abstract of the two writers. Blaser agrees but with distinct reservations, which he explains. Structure of the Illiad. Its narrative, its core story & its engaging formula. Pound & Olson are mentioned as inheritors of the Illiad's formula, it's…
Date: 1976-10-27
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-27
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Date: 1976-10-29
Name(s): Blaser, Robin
Description: Tape begins with Blaser mid-sentence discussing the cosmology of the poetic "Edda" [1200-800 A.D.] and the prose "edda". The topic is then further expanded into that of Norse religion and the old Norse world view. Blaser elaborates and explains the myths with references to Indo-European cultures. Blaser discusses the family of languages. He refers to Webster's International Dictionary. He draws together various pieces of cultural evidence to construct the characteristics of "Indo-European…
