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»Bei den Ausgabeeinheiten der Verbundsysteme sind die optomechanischen Belichter vollständig verschwunden. Auch die Kathodenstrahlbelichter treten in den Hintergrund. Die Laserbelichter geben in den neunziger Jahren den Ton an. Ihr hohes Auflösungsvermögen bringt eine neue Dimension in der Graustufenwiedergabe.«
Aus: Günter Schmitt - Schriftsetzer, Typograf: Ein Beruf im Wandel der Zeit. (1990)
Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.
Getting packed for a week long motorcycle camping trip. I leave tomorrow. This is a much much needed break.
First night I'll be camping in Point Pleasant, WV and visiting the Mothman museum. After that, heading over to the Red River Gorge in Kentucky, then looping down through Tennessee, North Carolina and back into West Virginia where I'm planning to spend a couple of days exploring sites like Audra State Park and Blackwater Falls. I'll be posting photos from the trip here…
Duitse onrust over nationale goudstaven in VS. ‘Het is ons geld, het moet worden teruggebracht’ - NRC
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PVV-minister wilde op ‘Trump-achtige’ wijze weer overal naar 130 kilometer per uur | Politiek | AD.nl
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Ahh ... Van die 1e, 2e en 3e prioriteit om overal weer (eventjes) 130 km/u te mogen rijden is ook al vrijwel niets terecht gekomen... 😂
Foute Vera …. Er komt nog eens eerherstel voor Arib denk ik …
Rol oud-Kamervoorzitter Bergkamp in affaire-Arib blijkt veel groter https://nos.nl/l/2570748
Calamus 39 Sometimes with one I love
A short and sweet honoring of unrequited love. Whitman expressing his rage at it, but then also recognizing that even the experience of unreturned love contributes to his life and poetry.
I think it's a universal sentiment. But then Whitman gays it up a bit:
if I had not freely given myself to comrades, to love
There's that word, "comrades", which to me reads as very male/male coded. He removed it in later versions.