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3 a m helquin skip to main skip to sidebar 02 may 2009 list 3 3a 2007 remember smoke revelation work grace waiting insomnia voyeur butterfly reunion 3b 2008 2009 untitled aubade gravity prayer homecoming night drowning home sonnet sleep the virginia quarterly review posted by helquin at 2 5 09 no comments labels lists 26 april 2009 list 2 the sown men see myth of cadmus echion ekhion son of the viper echis udaeus oudaios the black one or the infernal one chthonius khthonios of the earth underground hyperenor over above a man pelorus peloros giant or big man posted by helquin at 26 4 09 no comments labels lists 06 april 2009 list 1 fiction a features character incident linguistic invention b tension social strivings existential strivings sexual strivings political strivings c payoff humor pathos mystery surprise photo by helquin posted by helquin at 6 4 09 no comments labels lists 26 march 2009 where to begin i t was only when i sweated my way into it that i realized one of the most fundamental rules of comics storytelling start the story as late as possible mark waid at kung fu monkey posted by helquin at 26 3 09 no comments labels 247 07 march 2009 music 6 soulshake peggy scott jo jo benson i wanna be a flintstone the screaming blue messiahs friends whodini posted by helquin at 7 3 09 no comments labels mix 16 december 2008 on the edge thematically film noir examines the role of the individual within a diseased modern society the issues of noir films are alienation entrapment within a powerful industrial system paranoia fatalism and inevitable doom of mankind in a sense one can argue that film noir is a psychological examination of modern man s existence and along the way it thrills the audience film noir forces the viewer to think and grapple with its themes viewing a film noir is not a passive experience rather it is active and sometimes quite disturbing the characters of noir live on the edge and take the audience along with them tony kashani film noir form and content from chapter 12 of deconstructing the mystique posted by helquin at 16 12 08 no comments labels 247 12 december 2008 nothing to be done from giorgio agamben s profanations each of us has known such creatures whom walter benjamin defines as crepuscular and incomplete similar to the gandharvas of the indian sages who are half celestial genie half demon none has a firm place in the world or firm inalienable outlines there is not one that is not either rising or falling none that is not trading its qualities with its enemies or neighbor none that has not completed its period of time and yet is unripe none that is not deeply exhausted and yet is only at the beginning of a long existence more intelligent and gifted than our other friends always intent on notions and projects for which they seem to have all the necessary virtues they still do not succeed in finishing anything and are generally idle senz opera they embody the type of eternal student or swindler who ages badly and who must be left behind in the end even if it is against our wishes and yet something about them an inconclusive gesture an unforeseen grace a certain mathematical boldness in judgment and taste a certain air of nimbleness in their limbs or words all these features indicate that they belong to a complementary world and allude to a lost citizenship or inviolable elsewhere in this sense they give us help even though we can t quite tell what sort of help it is it could consist precisely in the fact that they cannot be helped or in their stubborn insistence that there is nothing to be done for us for that very reason we know in the end that we have somehow betrayed them as quoted at ads without products posted by helquin at 12 12 08 no comments labels miscellany older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me helquin view my complete profile commonplace book n a personal journal in which quotable passages literary excerpts and comments are written blogs wood s lot poetry daily silliman s blog the wooden spoon ads without products the essential industry fido the yak possum ego hg poetics lime tree the page spurious misc links thoughtmesh futility closet guerilla poetics project blog archive 2009 5 may 1 list 3 april 2 march 2 2008 35 december 7 september 2 august 7 july 9 june 4 may 6 labels 247 6 almanac 1 analecta 4 aphorisms 1 echo 14 lists 3 miscellany 3 mix 6 structure 1 style 1