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Montage Vie De Merde / Street art Montreal

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Georges Chakra | Spring/Summer 2019 Couture

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Le Couinement Poétique

Plusieurs personnes reconnaît que la oie Canadien (Branta canadensis) possède un tête et cou qui sont noir et une joue blanc. Le nom common de la oie est le oiseau d’eau. Il y a quelque chose de très poétique avec cet espèce de oiseau. Il sont trouvés et listés comme un espèce qui est de moindre préoccupation sur la liste de la UICN. Il y a une difference entre la poésie et la fiction; le contenu apparent de la fiction, notamment. Il fallait conclure que avec les romanciers il faut demander ce qui est similaire du Canada. Le critère pour une oeuvre de fiction Canadien se dénote: 1) après 1867; 2) en Anglais ou Français; et 3) roman ou courte fiction.

Pour juger l’importance de la littérature canadienne, j’ai communiqué avec le Ministère du Patrimoine Canadien. Pour les parlementaires il faut demander ce qui est distinct de la société. Voici une différence avec les romanciers. Le chef du Ministère est l’Honorable Pablo Rodriguez, Député fédéral de Honoré-Mercier. Le parlementaire m’a pas répondu; il y a un bloquage sur tout les réponses par poste qui facilite un meurtre.

L’enquête basique sur la littérature canadienne est écrit par Margaret Atwood en 1972, Survival. Elle demande les questions suivantes, pourquoi doit-on s’engager avec la littérature? Et qu’est-ce-qui est l’esprit Canadien de la littérature du Canada? Elle répond a ses questions par questionner si le Canada est une colonie britannique. Les thèmes de la littérature Canadien selon moi sont la vie pénitentiaire, le milieu de Kingston, Ontario; la nation d’eau; le sauvage; le régionalisme; et le drapeau britannique. Tout ce qui se déroule dans les lignes cartographiques du Canada est un oeuvre Canadien; si non, le roman est un porte-parole pour la fiction étrangère. Ceci est une distinction compromettant pour les prix.

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Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil

The book is confusing, the book is long, the book is still worth a read. It is not until page 50 that we are introduced to the two title characters of a play by Henry, the book’s title character. Yann Martel is considerate of The Holocaust, the flip book, English and German, the friend of animals, letters, and Madame Bovary. He writes that Henry, the title character, “[his] second novel, written like his first, under a pen name, had done well.” Here are all the clever things about Yann Martel’s novel. He talks a fair bit on art metaphors, but I have to wonder myself if he has read a book on arts & physics. He talks a fair bit on avoiding the veterinarian for all questions related to animals. Henry goes to a taxidermist. He avoids acknowledging that cats and dogs cannot live together. Despite this, Henry has a dog and a cat (Erasmus and Mendelssohn, Rotterdam and Hamburg). Then the Greenhouse Players that’s at the Mary Winspear Centre, right? All of this to conclude that “each of us is a mixture of fact and fiction, a saving of tales set in our real bodies.” And of course, Henry in his real life has quite some emotion to handle: the birth of his child and his death scene after a stabbing.

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“I almost feel that I had to comment on a statistic that I read about online, that plants in the ocean die after one day. I do not like plants, another food security studies. Now I applied to learn whether about physics might not be more useful. It is more math intensive. So why not study Economics with a minor in Canadian Studies?”

What a troll entered at CIBC in Ottawa? The slipper from the Danforth is before the Casino in Brockville and when you place a gun near the heavily clothed you repeat it was for Gander. Where does this end in Timmins or Mont Tremblant? Say the T word and get head chopped off. But you said I left you at West Edmonton Mall. I bet the best clue is to find out where the Premier of Ontario, Douglas Ford, was standing holding a white table if you were standing with a white table on the highway. The Dexter ploy in Halifax is not allowed. To verify the story, I would send you to Niagara-on-the-Lake.

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Better Things to Comment ON

The commute home was about eighty-three kilometres, a full hour drive between home and university. My home was near the Thousand Islands and my university was near the Penitentiary. The fine line between being a law-abider and a law-breaker was set. Each island in the Thousand Islands is populated by a different type of environmental energy incentive. Pipelines are bought to direct every politician’s seasonal affective disorder; we power homes in winter with oil and gas in Canada bought from every local source.

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The Most Interesting Places Names to Avoid People that Purchase at KingArt, PURCHASE, NY STATE.

The state’s other large cities—Albany, Buffalo, Rochester, Schenectady, Syracuse, Troy, Utica—were growing, not as fast as New York but fast enough. So was their need for state parks.

Less than thirty miles from the borders of New York City, the laymen lived in a world that resembled nothing so much as the remote fog banks of Nova Scotia.

Lake Placid

Valley Stream, Lynbrook, Oceanside, Rockville Centre, Freeport, Merrick, Amityville, Lindenhurst, and Babylon.

Albany or Chattanooga, or in the Spokane, Tacoma, Duluth, Akron, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Nashville, or Sacramento.

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The Story: Philosophy is about life questions. Who would disagree with this? The better question to ask is “What about on the origin of the world?” The main character of the story has a father who works on a petroleum platform. He is away most of the year and returns home with slippers. The main character of the story is sheltered by her shed. This is about the Garden of Eden. The better question to ask is “Why appreciate reading?” Then the main character suggests that solitude is the best companion for suffering. Otherwise, you will not know who you are and why you are alive. This is about a top hat.

The better question to ask is whether Norse mythology is a central theme to the book. Now you can unwind the story. The answers that the author provides to questions about philosophical topics. He names all the major Classical and Modern Philosophers.

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Our Homesick Songs (Emma Hooper)

This is not an adventure story telling all about the highest sense of feeling adrenaline; if you actually imagined it was a sex tale. It is a novel that sloths around a crisis period in a fishing community. Of course, you do not hear too much about the fishermen themselves. The book is worth the ] the cover design of the book jacket. Here is my favourite group of sentences: “They’ll be all right, they’ll be all right, the baker whispered to the boat-pitch man whispered to the priest whispered to the ferry woman whispered to her son whispered to the kitten he lured to his back door with fish eyes and tails while he tried as hard as he could to let their mewling blanket over the sound of the thought of the sea the boat, both parents at once” (33).

There is a common motif of mermaids in the story. There is also a mixed-up story involving all the characters, Martha Murphy, Cora, Finn, Aidan: All Connors are cheats, he said. All of us (278). “Martha Murphy was thirteen years old and had three sisters, two older, one younger, when both her parents drowned” (16). “Cora spent most of her time in their neighbours’ empty house, reading travel books from the library boat or making up slow songs on her violin.” (20) And Finn: “Cora’s picture of him, the accordion and the dog, was in his corduroy trousers’ front right pocket (25).

Here is the hint that a cement block might hit your head if you are standing on a curved street in the city of St. John’s.

“He thought about kissing a girl, if it would be like the steam. Wet and warm and hungry.” (36)

“No, she continued, it’s because they were homesick. Even though they wanted to be here, needed to be here in this new place, they were still homesick; it couldn’t be helped.” Also, “They didn’t have cameras then, so they didn’t have photos of home, of where they were from. And most sailors and explorers were rubbish at painting, that’s why they were sailors and explorers, not painters, so the only, the best, way for them to remember home was through singing, through the song and tunes the knew from home” (275).

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Upstate (James Wood)

A few remarkable sentences, and several common clichés. The book is set near Saratoga Springs, New York; the title characters have a connection to England. The best line of the book is “There was a lovely cherry tree in the garden in Northumberland: in the spring, it shed so much blossom that the air around it seemed to be charged with pink activity.”

The book is forty chapters and easily read in one day. What is ridiculously expensive about this  book are two things: #1) the final line from a thirty-something odd chapter, “And upstate, upstate, spring would turn to summer, with peals of wisteria bells, and the strong trees-the poplars, the maples, and the oaks-would fill out and become joyful aren worlds again. Upstate” (213); and #2) the somewhat similar long sentence eight chapters before or perhaps it was the long-awaited fall of a female character with a much younger boyfriend-these things never end well. The longer sentence that locates the book well-after introductions to Skidmore College near Saratoga Springs is: “Skidmore’s campus had the pleasant woodsy feel of Saratoga generally, as if the students were at university to study forestry: all these wonderful trees, rootless in the high snow-the thick maples, the tall nude poplars (nothing looked more abandoned than a poplar in winter), the slender silver birches with their tattered, wounded-looking bark” (173). Ok, so it was the final line of the book that is expensive to quote, the book jacket is $34.00 (well the book is not worth all that money). A terrible chapter is chapter twenty; and considering the book is not about rural New York State, it does have a few cheap lines on bad music. The story is half set in two places; a quarter in Northumberland and three-quarters in New York State (Saratoga Springs). The characters are Alan, Cathy, Vanessa, and Helen: that’s a family whose paternal side is from lower middle class Edinburgh and a family of two daughters. Helen, the youngest daughter-who is unlike her elder sister in temperament-takes leave from England to visit her sister with her father for one week. “Well, why shouldn’t the poor thing have a boyfriend” and “he had to go in three days to Saratoga Springs, to be there for his daughter, poor Vanessa.” (She did her Ph.D. in philosophy). The family shield is The House of Querry. Alan was born in Newcastle (that’s more than one hundred kilometres south of the Lothian and Edinburgh), family wealth comes from the owners of a hardware shop. Alan’s interests are on Buddhist psychotherapy (gardens and meditation). He is 68. Vanessa and Helen. Vanessa and Helen. Well, Vanessa and Helen. Helen and Vanessa. The first takes no sides; she reads, and we read on both Van and Helen comparatively for three chapters (IV-V-VI). Best line to summarize their differences: “Helen was exuberant, playful, disobedient, physical; Vanessa was shy, gentle, slow to anger, studious, very private” (18). And their different ends: one premeditates with anti-depressant medication: “Had she really tried to do herself some harm in Saratoga Springs. Put aside her life  […] like a half-finished crossword puzzle?” Was she [Vanessa] thinking of suicide? Helen was two kids with Tom; we do not know of them in the story. We do know things about Vanessa’s boyfriend Josh, who is from Chicago; he talks on politics. Alan’s wife Cathy is passed away twelve years ago: his story is of six days: “they were coming into Albany, slowing down and outside there were the usual American urban scraps-a body shop; redbrick warehouses with smashed milky windows, their bricks daubed with the fat, dirty-white, risen-loaf lettering of graffiti artists; parking lots with new cars in orderly ranks; a flat-roofed mall, and a weirdly new high school” (54). Generally, Vanessa lives with all the same coloured clothing, symptomatic of depression? Vanessa and Helen. Vanessa and Helen. Well, Vanessa and Helen. Helen and Vanessa. Most chapters past the book’s mid-section pass pondering on Vanessa’s’ fall. The personality of Alan is “kind, self-contained, [and] a bit detached. You’re basically here because I asked you to be here is Josh’s answer to Alan for his six day trip. This all “helps to minimize the carbon footprint,” positive thought and positive thinking. Well, minus their airplane flight.

The question of why things are so huge in the United States, but twice as big [and] half as good; why there are American flags everywhere and why there is nothing hypocritical about the flavour of American cheese. What is slightly stale in the story is that music is more reliable than friends or family (verbatim); then there is Josh and Vanessa. Between Helen and Josh, the “way they say that little jungle, like lovers sharing a cigarette, held seen that gleam in Helen’s eyes.” But between Vanessa and Josh, he could never contemplate coming to England, and that is because of the following: “not because he could not imagine living anywhere with her in the future. [I mean] He brings her to Chicago.” Plus, Josh still loved Vanessa. “But he could not live with her. Or he didn’t love her enough, and could not live with her enough” (191). What Vanessa specializes in is knowing purposeful examination and knowing where to stop examining things, that is the essay--what a philosophical line by the author. Then there are the swimming lesson references. For example, “what was the point of swimming in all this stale water” or “I’m buoyant like a human being is. I have to work at it the whole time or I’ll sink in the water.” Swimming and very true life as well ends when buoyancy pigeonholes. Vanessa cancels her trip back to Northumberland and she dies shortly thereafter. The end.

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WEAVING WATER BY ANNAMARIE BECKEL

The lines that matter worst in the book:

“IN HER WORST MOMENTS, SHE CAN’T HELP BELIEVING THAT PEOPLE ARE A BLIGHT UPON THE EARTH: AN AGGRESSIVE INVASIVE SPECIES HEEDLESSLY DISPLACING AL OTHERS. WOULDN’T THE EARTH BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT THEM?”

In this condition, the politicians called “JOSH” are laughing at you in Guelph, Ontario. See: Upstate, by James Wood

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The Artificial Newfoundlander (Larry Mathews)

I mean why is he mentioning a Jewish Montreal character, Duddy Kravitz? There is nothing about setting to describe other than Cabot Tower as a strategic place. To braid the strings of this story, you would need to talk about St. John’s in three ways: 1) as the “Centre of Cemeteries”; 2) as a city of “dreadful night”; 3) as a centre for “Anglophilia.”

I kind of wondered whether the lines of the book would resemble a song line written by Avril Lavigne, from one small town to the next on the highway: “Never wore cover-up. Always beat the boys up. Grew up in a 5,000 population town.” Oh right, we’re filming small towns, Rose Blanche, and the Cove of Flowers.

The end talks about three missing women, there is no cough syrup defence against the lack of small township descriptions in this book. If the author is interested in linguistics and dialogue, he might be tugging at the fact that Newfoundlanders have a distinct accent and if not, he might be spinning a totally unrelated record about balsam firs and black spruce.

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What's on my mind for Emma Hooper?

The Spaniards? All Finn knew about Spain he knew from Cora's home.

Bulls and sun and tomatoes. Nothing about water, about storms.

First the lightning, then the thunder, then the wind and the waves, the waves and the wind and the night-white water, all of which were the same, all one, pushing and teaching and pulling and pressing in on them, on every side, wind, waves, water, everything wet and loud and black and white, deep night, then light, then night, then light, and everyone was awake now. The mittens were black and sleek and not wool. Not home-made. Finn slipped down off the couch and crawled on his hands and knees to the window so as to be invisible from outside.

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I like the point that police make about people that escape places. This is the list of things that are interesting about the situation:

The Weather Report

News


The Brainstorm Map


The Leaves on the Trees


Green


Mallorytown


Wolfe Island


What's the Name of the Fictitious Land?

The answer to my question for the French was in Charlevoix. The answer is that the places of interest are: Cap-au-Saumon Cap-de-la-Tete-au-Chien

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Vice Magazine asks me about the repercussions of holding a team USA keychain in Canada for the Olympic Games of Salt Lake City?

In the ten provinces and in the three territories. In British Columbia, you can find rail, mountains, and rain shadow. In Alberta, you can find oil, the Calgary Stampede, and dinosaur bones or vertebrate fossils. In Saskatchewan, you can find a television program and farms. In Ontario, you can find guns, bulldozers, and overgrazed farmland. In Quebec, you can find maple syrup trees. In New Brunswick, can find bears, Hopewell Rocks, and tidal energy. In Prince Edward Island, you can find lighthouses and ferric/ferrous iron-rich sand. In Nova Scotia, you can find anchors, sea shells, and whale bones. In Newfoundland and Labrador, you can find icebergs, a collapsed cod industry, and colourful wooden homes. In the Yukon, you can spot mineral rushes. In the Northwest Territories, you can spot Aurora Borealis. And in Nunavut you can spot polar bears and the Arctic Rangers. How many times can you take off a parka to put on a rubbery rain coat to complete a correct weather report?