Week 6
February 16th, 2011 § Leave a Comment
The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
- Great happiness; bliss.
- An instance of great happiness.
- A cause or source of happiness.
- An appropriate and pleasing manner or style: felicity of expression.
- An instance of appropriate and pleasing manner or style.
- Archaic Good fortune.
The word is powerful.
This a masterful lecture by Walcott. Engaging and encompassing; the beautiful pay of words is not something often experienced today.
“The performance was like a dialect, a branch of its original language, an abridgement of it, but not a distortion or even a reduction of its epic scale.”
The actions of men, the way the interact, their choices. Dance and music are such important parts of language.
“Antillean art is this restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym for pieces broken off from the original continent. And this is the exact process of the making of poetry, or what should be called not its “making” but its remaking, the fragmented memory, the armature that frames the god, even the rite that surrenders it to a final pyre; the god assembled cane by cane, reed by weaving reed, line by plaited line, as the artisans of Felicity would erect his holy echo.”
Isn’t this the was of the modern world.
News from that week, ie what I was also reading
Diplomatic Talks Between North and South Korea Collapse Before They Begin | The Atlantic Wire
How Secular Is the Muslim Brotherhood? | The Atlantic Wire
