banana breakfast

[Mark Kohut]

And tropical warmth is a Good Thing vs. icy south, a trope older than
Shakespeare,and  doncha just love the density, Monte's complexity, of the
prose and its referents--"high intricacy to the weaving of its molecules"
(a phrase I think of when I've reduced life to too-simple explanations )
and the surprising "Death is told so clearly to fuck off"---

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 8:23 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Fragile" and "labyrinthine" and "complexity," especially in association
> with living nature, tend to be  pretty reliably Good Things in GR compared
> to anything metallic, rectilinear, or stripped to "brute"  purposefulness.
> What shall we do with all this useless beauty?
>
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:22 AM, gary webb <gwebb8686 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the nights old smoke,
>> alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of breakfast: flowery,
>> permeating, surprising, more than the color of winter sunlight, taking over
>> not so much though any brute pungency or volume as by the high intricacy to
>> the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror's secret by which-though
>> it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off-the living genetic
>> chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some human face down ten
>> or twenty generations... (pg.10)"
>>
>> In this coming together of all those who will soon have to face death,
>> they are allowed this marginal bit of life...
>>
>
>
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