The Phenomenology Part —
Art adapted from a student* artwork in a public gallery display
this month in my hometown library that I saw on March 20 —
The Multispeech Part —
From a New York Times obituary yesterday, March 22 —
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/lyn-hejinian-dead.html —
"With its use of ambiguous language and disjunctive sentences,
the book forsook the traditional language of autobiography,
beginning with a haunting evocation of Ms. Hejinian’s earliest memory,
her father returning from World War II:
A moment yellow, just as four years later, when my father returned
home from the war, the moment of greeting him, as he stood at
the bottom of the stairs, younger, thinner than when he had left,
was purple — though moments are no longer so colored."
I do not endorse the dead poet's philosophy, but the language is striking.
* The artist is much too young to be identified by name on the Internet,
but may (or may not) become much better known in later life.
