"Les caravanes partirent. Et le Splendide-Hotel fut bati dans le chaos de glaces and de nuit du pole."
Rimbaud/Illuminations
And the Hotel Splendide was built in the chaos of ice and polar night.
Reflections about the Chelsea Hotel in the London Review of Books by Jeremy Harding.
My only experience of the Chelsea Hotel is through Leonard Cohen.
On Radio 3 the Sunday morning programme is dedicated to music for prayer: choral evensongs and masses.Wonder why this - in particular - is music for prayer.
What is music for prayer? Later - go to a recital - Benjamin Appl singing Schumann's Dichterliebe.
Depends what you are praying for, and to whom or what, I guess.
Note to follow up: Jeremy Harding mentions Gilbert Sorrentino's Splendide-Hotel (1973) - 27 meditations from A-Z with one extra.
The entry for Z: "Z. Everyone is asleep in the Splendide-Hotel."
Alphabets are like lists - of endless fascination. An attempt to organise the chaos perhaps.
Rimbaud/Illuminations
And the Hotel Splendide was built in the chaos of ice and polar night.
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| Iceberg hit by the Titanic |
Reflections about the Chelsea Hotel in the London Review of Books by Jeremy Harding.
My only experience of the Chelsea Hotel is through Leonard Cohen.
On Radio 3 the Sunday morning programme is dedicated to music for prayer: choral evensongs and masses.Wonder why this - in particular - is music for prayer.
What is music for prayer? Later - go to a recital - Benjamin Appl singing Schumann's Dichterliebe.
Depends what you are praying for, and to whom or what, I guess.
Note to follow up: Jeremy Harding mentions Gilbert Sorrentino's Splendide-Hotel (1973) - 27 meditations from A-Z with one extra.
The entry for Z: "Z. Everyone is asleep in the Splendide-Hotel."
Alphabets are like lists - of endless fascination. An attempt to organise the chaos perhaps.
