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Tuesday, February 6, 2024

“Someone Puts a Poem Together”
— Hat Tip to Wallace Stevens

Filed under: General — Tags: , , , — m759 @ 8:04 pm

Updated with noun-adjective distinction and Feinerman art
at 5:25 PM ET on Wednesday, February 7, 2024.

Note: The above is not  the standard Spanish
word for pineapple. It actually  means . . .

AS A NOUN —

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Update on the next day, February 7th —

AS AN ADJECTIVE —

"Esta fruta se puede probar también en las vías de acceso a la denominada 'capital piñera de Colombia', donde en la última semana de julio se celebra el Reinado Internacional de la Piña."
 
"This fruit can also be tasted in the access routes of the 'pineapple capital of Colombia', where during the last week of July they celebrate the International Pineapple pageant."
 
— https://context.reverso.net/translation/
spanish-english/piñera

From this  journal during the last week of July 2023 —

Thursday, August 17, 2023

Language Game for a Baker’s Wife (Pace Sondheim)

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 2:24 pm

From a 1984 film,  "2010: The Year We Make Contact" —

Russian — "Piece of pie."
American — "Cake. Piece of cake."

This brief dialogue was suggested by the phrase
"Pineapple Upside-Down Cake," which in turn was
suggested by an image and a dance from the Instagram
page of the talented Jena Malone:

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Piña del Monte

Filed under: General — m759 @ 11:11 pm

New York lottery today —

This evening's NY lottery results, interpreted as a phone number, yield …

See also posts tagged The Poet's Pineapple …

"The momentary footings of a climb
Up the pineapple, a table Alp and yet
An Alp…."

— Wallace Stevens, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together"
    (Lines from p. 252 of Partisan Review  Vol. XIV No. 3,
     May-June 1947)

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

A Defense of Meaning

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm
 

"In certain moods the horror of a word is the meaning it defends against all comers; so metaphor is the device by which one undermines that defense. In Stevens’ 'Someone Puts a Pineapple Together,' the someone contemplates 'A wholly artificial nature, in which / The profusion of metaphor has been increased.' If you put a pineapple together and see metaphors becoming more profuse, you release yourself from psychological determinations, you become a performative gesture and are happy to find yourself in that state. But then a scruple may assert itself:

He must say nothing of the fruit that is
Not true, nor think it, less. He must defy
The metaphor that murders metaphor.

Presumably a bad metaphor murders a good one: bad in the sense of telling lies, ignoring the truths that can’t honorably be ignored."

— Denis Donoghue, "The Motive for Metaphor,"
     The Hudson Review , Winter 2013 issue

A Geometric Glitter

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 11:10 am

"In the planes that tilt hard revelations on
The eye, a geometric glitter, tiltings …."

— Wallace Stevens, "Someone Puts a Pineapple Together" (1947)

Monday, July 2, 2007

Monday July 2, 2007

Filed under: General,Geometry — m759 @ 8:28 pm

A figure like Ecclesiast/
Rugged and luminous,
 chants in the dark/
A text that is an answer,
although obscure.

— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening
in New Haven"

A Text

Time and Chance
today in the
Keystone State:

PA Lottery July 2, 2007: Mid-day 004, Evening 802


From 8/02
in 2005:

50 Years Ago
on this date, poet
Wallace Stevens died.

Memorial: at the
Wallace Stevens
Concordance,
enter center.


Result:

The Man with the Blue Guitar
line 150 (xiii.6): The heraldic center of the world

Human Arrangement
line 13: The center of transformations that

This Solitude of Cataracts
line 18: Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time.

A Primitive Like an Orb
line 1 (i.1): The essential poem at the center of things,
line 87 (xi.7): At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave

Reply to Papini
line 33 (ii.15): And final. This is the center. The poet is

Study of Images II
line 7: As if the center of images had its

An Ordinary Evening in New Haven
line 291 (xvii.3): It fails. The strength at the center is serious.
line 371 (xxi.11): At the center, the object of the will, this place,

Things of August
line 154 (ix.18): At the center of the unintelligible,

The Hermitage at the Center
Title: The Hermitage at the Center

Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP)
line 13 (ii.9): At the center of the mass, the haunches low,

The Sail of Ulysses (OP)
line 50 (iv.6): The center of the self, the self

Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA)
line 6 (i.6): The angel at the center of this rind,

Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA)
line 29: At last, the center of resemblance, found
line 32: Stand at the center of ideal time,


For a text on today's
mid-day number, see

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