#waltwhitman

[literaturewoman]

"If you want to know where your heart is, look to where your mind goes when it wanders."

—Walt Whitman

[elwinglyre]

My original fiction. Please give it some love. It’s on Wattpad (click link under the image for story).

TITLE: Rewriting Singularity: A paranormal Gay Romance

Summary: All sitcom writer Jacob Grey wanted was story credit. Instead his partner betrays him above and below the covers: He steals Jake's pilot, sells it to ABC, and sleeps with their bimbo agent. That's when Jake leaves and ends up at a quirky Green Bay bed and breakfast. Nothing at the bed and breakfast is normal. 

Jake's confounded by mysterious bangs and clangs inside the walls, and how despite writer's block, his new sitcom writes itself while he sleeps. He's not even sure if the owners are human. But he is sure there's something about one of the owners. Hector Lodge, the man Jake calls Mr. Mumbles, is one big secret--a secret Jake wants to know better. 

 When Jake sneaks into a hidden passageway between the walls to learn more about Mr. Mumbles, he finds more than a bedroom. A music box plays just for him with a journal tucked inside that he's drawn to read. A story unfolds that binds two strangers' pasts with his present. After Mr. Mumbles confronts Jake about his snooping, he confides in Jake. Yes, the house is haunted, and yes, the journals could answer why. But when Jake hires two private investigators to uncover information about the journal's author, Jake also has them secretly look into Hector's past. What they discover unravels the family's hidden history and links them to the man who haunts them.   

 REWRITING SINGULARITY  (62,680 words) is an adult fiction with multi-genre, magical realism twist and gay protagonist with Walter Mitty's imagination.

Graphic cover by Sammy Clay

Rating: Mature audience

[whencyclopedia]

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892) was an American journalist and poet, best known for his collection of poems entitled Leaves of Grass, first published in 1855. He remains an influential figure in American literature, whose writings reflect how deeply affected he was by the times in which he lived: "Everything Whitman wrote centered around the notion of democracy" (Mead, 555).

Early Life

Walt Whitman was born on 31 May 1819 in a small village on Long Island, New York. His parents were Walter Whitman Sr. of English descent and Louisa Van Velsor of Dutch-Quaker descent. Both were descended from early settlers on Long Island. Whitman Jr. was the second child and second son. Walt Sr. was a farmer who used his carpentry skills during the city's building boom by moving the family to Brooklyn in 1823. According to Whitman Jr., his father was "always of democratic and heretical tendencies" (Kaplan, 56). Whitman's parents gave him a basic understanding of political liberalism and deistic faith shaped by the teaching of Quakerism. Whitman remained a lifelong liberal.

After leaving school at the age of eleven, he found work at a law firm and doctor's office. Despite little formal education, Whitman was a voracious reader, and aside from the works of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), he read 19th-century novels, English Romantic poetry, European classics, and the New Testament. By the age of twelve, he was working in the printing office of a newspaper, the Long Island Patriot, and contributing pieces for publication. He would leave the Patriot, an organ for the Democratic Party, and work at the Star, a Whig newspaper. By the age of 15, he was contributing poems to the Manhattan newspaper The Mirror. In the 1840s, there were between 15 and 20 newspapers in New York – Whitman would work for many of them as either a contributor or editor. At the Patriot and the Star, he had learned the printer trade, a compositor or journeyman printer. But when his family returned to Long Island, he did not; he was on his own, spending his free time at the theater and debating societies. When two fires disrupted the printing industry in 1835, Whitman was forced to return to his family, but despite the hardships, he would not give up his desire to write.

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[rajavomwaldesrand]

Elizabeth @mendingbeautifully

”to the vast silence of the sea~ watching the stars rise~ magic~ potent~ spells.” ~ with Ursula LeGuin “all things 48”~ a new book for stitching, a new year for living and for remembering the true nature of it all.

[hellosoysauce]

SONG OF MYSELF

I exist as I am, that is enough,

If no other in the world be aware

I sit content.

And if each and all be aware

I sit content.

One world is aware,

And by the far, the largest to me,

And that is Myself.

And whether I come to my own today

Or in ten thousand or ten million years,

I can cheerfully take it now,

Or with equal cheerfulness,

I can wait.

~ Walt Whitman

[ love love love. I wish I wrote this ♡ ]

[mantikutayr]

sanat kutsalın neyidir?  

mathesis (okuyarak bilme), pathesis (deneyimle bilme)  gnosis (sezgi ile bilme) ya da gökyüzü altında söylenmemiş söz yoktur* meşrebinize göre ilmel yakin, aynel yakin, hakkel yakin.  

bana kalırsa bu kitapta sekiz tane (hissetmenin tözü, özgürlüğün biyolojisi, lezzetin özü, belleğin yönetimi, görme olayı, müzğin kaynağı,  dilin yapısı, ortaya çıkan benlik)     dile getirilemeyen ‘’öykü’’ (beden, bellek, görme, tat, koku, işitme, dil ve benlik.) hads var.

(hads: sen ve bilmek istediğin şey arasında direkt olarak gerçekleşen bilme türü, kavrayış, sezgi.)

arka kapaktan: marcel proust tüm gününü yatakta geçirir, eski günleri düşünürdü. paul cézanne saatler boyu öylece bir elmaya bakardı. auguste escoffier sadece müşterilerini memnun etmeye çalışırdı. igor stravinski müşterilerini memnun etmemeye çalışırdı. gertrude stein ise sözcüklerle oynamayı severdi. fakat aralarındaki teknik farklara rağmen, bu sanatçıların hepsi de insan deneyimine sonu gelmez bir ilgi duyuyordu. yarattıkları eserler keşif edimleriydi, anlayamadıkları gizemlerle bu şekilde boğuşuyorlardı.

jonah lehrer proust bir sinirbilimciydi’de kendi alanlarına damga vurmuş sekiz isim üzerinden, sanatçıların bilim alanında kanıtlanmış olguları bilimcilerden önce sezgileriyle öngördüklerini herkesçe anlaşılır bir dille anlatıyor. bunu yaparken duygularla düşünceler arasındaki ayrıma olduğu gibi, sanatla bilim arasındaki katı işbölümüne de karşı çıkıyor ve yeni bir yol, “dördüncü kültür” yolunu öneriyor. fakat dördüncü bir kültüre ulaşabilmemiz için öncelikle sahip olduğumuz iki kültürün alışkanlıklarını değiştirmesi gerekir. hepsinden önce, beşeri bilimler samimi bir adımla pozitif bilimlerle bağ kurmalıdır. proust bir sinirbilimciydi bu yolda atılmış önemli bir adım.  

[briandupont]

Thinking about the evolution of #WaltWhitman’s #LeavesOfGrass from a small volume of 12 poems to an encompassing total of his writing spanning 14 sections of completed poetry… how to assess the comparative weights and measures of each? . Annotation 8. #watercolor, epoxy & #mixedmedia on #paper (30” x 22.25”) . #art #drawing #painting #paintingonpaper #abstractart #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #textart #colorfield #colorfieldpainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CoQIohPOyBY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tucambioesahora]

"Nunca hubo más principio que ahora, ni más juventud ni vejez que ahora; ni habrá más perfección que ahora, ni más infierno ni cielo que ahora. Walt Whitman.