"Look Homeward Ody

NOTES TO ODY

1. they do not see: Thomas Merton, "Rain and the Rhinoceros." In, Raids On The Unspeakable. New York, 1964.
   green mind: Wallace Stevens. From, Description Without Place."

2. Pale: Johannes Bobrowski. From, "North Russian Town." In, Shadow Lands: Selected Poems. New York, 1994.

3. undisclosed:. Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of The Work of Art." In, Poetry, Language, Thought. New York, 1971.

4. With respect to Being: Jos De Mul, Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art & Philosophy. Albany NY, 1999.
   foreign to man: Maurice Blanchot, "The Song of the Sirens: Encountering the Imaginary." The Gaze of Orpheur and Other Literary Essays. Barrytown NY, 1981.

5. The duck stood: Shinkichi Takahashi. From, "Duck."
    give the myth flesh: Albert Camus, "Prometheus in the Underworld." Lyrical and Critical Essays. New York, 1968.
    The oracle: David Weiss, “Refusing to Name the Animals.” Gettysburg Review, Winter 1990.

6. My name: Adonis (Ali Ahmad Sa'id) From, "Odysseus."
    Every culture knows: Craig Chalquist, Terrapsychology. New Orleans, 2007.

7. Bird man: René Char. From, "Lascaux I."
    Drive: Robert Creeley. From, "I Know A Man."

8. The passing: Martin Heidegger, "A Dialogue On Language. On The Way To Language. New York, 1971.
    God, life, death: Alva Noé, “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience.” New York Times, Dec. 4, 2011.
    our place: "With respect to (Kitaro) Nishida's 'logic of place,' in the Diamond Sutra, there is a celebrated injunction that is quoted often in Zen: 'Give rise to the Mind [or Self] that has no abiding place.'" Richard DeMartino, Zen Encounters. Wil (Switzerland) / Paris: University Media. 2022.

9. Nature: James R. Lawler, René Char: The Myth and the Poem. Princeton NJ, 1978.
    color-coded: "Those colors give clues to galaxy distances: The bluest galaxies are relatively nearby and often show intense star formation, as best detected by Hubble, while the redder galaxies tend to be more distant as detected by Webb. Some galaxies also appear very red because they contain copious amounts of cosmic dust that tends to absorb bluer colors of starlight." "NASA's Webb, Hubble Combine to Create Most Colorful View of Universe." Webb Space Telescope, November 9, 2023. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-146?keyword=Distant % 20Galaxies.
   Transients: "The goal was to search for objects varying in observed brightness over time, known as transients." Ibid.

10. this treacherous fault: Bjorn Ekeberg, Physics and the Invention of the Universe. Minneapolis & London, 2019.

11. the formless: Véronque M. Fóti, "Heidegger and ‘The Way of Art’: The Empty Origin and Contemporary Abstraction." Continental Philosophy Review 31,1998.
    “the unbearable automaticity of being.” Quoted in, David W. Bates, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence. Chicago, 2024.

12. A tree that is alone: Jean Genet, "The Studio of Alberto Giacometti." In, Fragments of the Artwork. Stanford CA., 2003.
     Heidegger used. Véronque M. Fóti, "Heidegger and ‘The Way of Art’: The Empty Origin and Contemporary Abstraction." Continental Philosophy Review 31,1998.

13. Summer grass: Matsuo Basho, In,"The Narrow Road To The Deep North."
      everything is yet: Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Cézanne. New York, 1985.

14. which would have: Jean Clottes, What Is Paleolithic Art? Chicago, 2016.

15.This broken oar: Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi. New York, 1971.

16. a talking tree: Pascal Boyer, "Gods and the Mental Instincts That Create Them.". In, Science, Religion, and the Human Experience. Oxford, 2005.

17. Dionysus: Norman O. Brown, Love's Body. Los Angeles,1990.

18. With the pallor of winter: In 490 BCE, a young man named Pheidippides was running home to Marathon with the bad news that the Spartans would not be joining the Athenians in their desperate fight to hold back a massive Persian Army. When "all of a sudden" the God Pan "fell in" with Pheidippides, and told him that he would be with the Athenians should they honor him. With the god on their side the Athenians rallied to achieve an unexpected victory.
But did Pan actually appear to Pheidippides? Or did the boy made up the story to cover the failure of his mission, Or did the hiss of Pan's pipes draw Pheidippides into the Other World, where he dreamed the balance of this story? See, Charles Boer, "Watch Your Step." Spring 59: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. Spring 1996. pp.101-121.
     Everyone was at the end: -A South African climate scientist who chose not to be named. The Guardian 7 May 2024.

19. All rivers join: Gaston Bachelard, Water and Dreams. Dallas TX, 2006.
"The Neolithic dead were frequently placed in rivers that, of course, eventually find their way to the sea. The sea seems to have become part of the underworld in a way that earlier Mesolithic people did not accept." David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce, Inside the Neolithic Mind. New York, 2005.
     Clear Lake: Clear Lake is in Lake County, California, about 100 miles north of San Francisco.
"The photographs showed that “bright green swirls were visible across most of the lake’s area.” Lois Beckett, "California Lake So Green With Algae It's Visible From Space, Says NASA." The Guardian, 31 May 2024.
    slaughtered: Joel Weishaus,"Battle of Blood Island." In, While I Was Waiting For You: Complete Poems: 1965-2000. Camanche IA, 2023. pp. 205-6.

20. so heuenly swete: John Lydgate, Troy Book. Independently published, 2018 [1513].

21. a time between worlds: Jonathan Rowson, "Metamodernism and The Perception of Context." https://systems-souls-society.com/metamodernism-and-the-perception-of-context-the-cultural-between-the-political-after-and-the-mystic-beyond
      the hard problem:. Arill Seth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06-iq-0yJNM
     a secret world: Friedrich Hölderlin. From, "Once There Were Gods."

23. Einstein showed: Elise Crull, “You Thought That Quantum Mechanics Was Weird: Check Out Entangled Time.” https:llaeon.co/ideas/you-thought-quantum-mechanics—was—weird-check-out-entangled-time
      the fatal chrysanthemum: Shinkichi Takahashi. From, "Collapse."

24. there is no going out: "In early Greece Helios was always treated with reverence but received little actual cult. Anaxagoras' announcement that the ‘sun was a red-hot mass’ caused outrage and it was not uncommon to salute and even pray to the sun at its rising and setting." (Oxford Classical Dictionary,) "Reaching Helios signi is the end of the journey; one cannot go much further. It is also the place where all men perish except Odysseus." Nanno Marinatos,"The Cosmic Journey of Odysseus." Numen,Vol. 48, No. 4 (2001), p.401.

25. "the pathos of dustance." I don't use this in the Nietzschean sense that "refers to an originary distinction between nobility and lowness, a chasm separating great from mediocrce men," Ruben Borg, Review of The Pathos of DIstance: Affects Of The Moderns, by Jean-Michel Rabaté. James Joyce Quarterly,Spring-Summer 2016. p.384. By the pathos of distance I mean the distance between humans and the balance of life on this planet.
     "You with your love of mountains:" Jean Daive, Under The Dome: Walks With Paul Celan. San Francisco, 2020.

26. "well-planed oar": In the depths of Hadas, Odysseus meets the blind seer Tiresias, who tells him: You must go out one more time. Carry your well-planed oar until you come to a race of people who know nothing of the sea..."
      the Steppes of Euasia: See, Adam Nicolson, Why Homer Matters. New York, 2014. pp. 144-177.
     Laistrygonians Cyclops: Constantine P. Cavafy. From, "Ithaka."