No

2009 January 21
by Ross

No talking in the library.

No talking to drown the still small wailing and whining of humanity, to make more supportable its shame and less ignoble its misery, in the library.

No big talking ball, howling behind my dissertation, in the library.

9 Responses leave one →
  1. 2009 January 22

    When a person is stoned, when a person receives a stoning. stones are thrown and they tend to die.

    When a person is booked, when he receives a booking, books are not thrown and they are not killed under the crushing weight of a hefty library.

    But, prisons and libraries, prion libraries, prisoners and books. They go together for good reason.

    Cross references: rarely angry. Book him, referee. Book him!

  2. 2009 January 25

    what is the fututist reciting in the backgarden? I can not hear it or i miss the reference. I love your music. but sometimes I miss a prper lyric sheet.

    erik
    rotterdam
    the netherlands

  3. 2009 January 25

    sorry a couple of moments later ifound your user guide page :-(

    silly

  4. 2009 January 25

    Yes, as you will have seen, SOUND POETRY!

    I loved this — http://tongues-in-cheek.blogspot.com/2008/11/18th-century-blogging.html –, by the way!

  5. 2009 January 26

    you could write a song about andriessen ;-)

    btw, you’re in my new blog post of my space pics and muses

  6. 2009 January 29
    Wayne permalink

    Speaking as a librarian (honest!) in a University (also true), I think libraries should be all about talking – or maybe conversations. In some areas or circumstances, conversations between readers and texts; in others conversations between people about texts. The last thing we want is silence. That way lies despair and worse.

    Keep talking…..

    W.

  7. 2009 February 2
    kleine schteine permalink

    You could also write a song using that library text. A morality song about library etiquette. I would play a song about library etiquette by you on the radio.

  8. 2009 February 3

    Well, since you mention it — the album I’m finishing right now is electronic pastoral pop songs, but the one that I’ll make soon after is going to be an incredibly discrete lowercase song cycle based on sets of instructions, thank you notes, official warnings, things of that sort. I want to make an album so quiet that it barely exists.

    This post has attracted some of the best comments I’ve ever had!

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