Anarcho-spiritual discourses and upbuilding speeches

Sections 8-10 – “By Blue Ontario’s Shore” by Walt Whitman

Apr 16, 2025

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Aesthetics, The Anarcho-spiritualist Broadcast

The Fourth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell

I conclude my elegiac readings with Die Vierte Elegie, from Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Listen ⇢
Die Zweite Elegie *Important footnote

I quote the footnote by Stephen Mitchell, which quotes Rilke (“Notebook entry, early November 1910; quoted in F.W. Wodtke, ‘Rilke und Klopstock,’ Kiel diss., 1948, p. 28). Listen ⇢
The Second Elegy – Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

I pick up again with The Second Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Listen ⇢
Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke – The First Elegy

The First Elegy, translated by Stephen Mitchell. Listen ⇢
Loosely Connected Yous Part 2

I wrote about the publishing history of this lyric poetry sequence in the first part of this material, in a post entitled You Butter Your Own Bread You… Listen ⇢
You butter your own bread you…

This is the start of a sequence from one of my first books of poetry, entitled Selected Collected 2009, which I printed less than 10 copies of at a Kinko’s with spiral binding during Christmastime 2009. In 2021, after self-publishing my novel, I used this sequence to create a short… Listen ⇢
My message, my book

In today’s episode, I begin from my personal frustration and quickly move into a rant about how I don’t understand why community-building projects don’t exist yet. I sound rather boggled by the fact that it’s not already a thing. From there I decide that I should just start reading it… Listen ⇢
Hello friends, a morning message about texts

When you’re absorbed in reading a book, time stops; but it’s not only a trick of perception, based on the flow of one’s attention. It’s that you enter the time zone of the text, which exists outside of time, for the reader or hearer, because the text creates its own… Listen ⇢
A Little Soulful Speech

Here’s a little soulful number to balance out my negative criticisms of AI from earlier, and illustrate my previous points about the existence of the soul. Listen ⇢