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Brion Gysin
frontiersman Posted Nov 1, 2005
Hi Helen,
Encrypting your postings/work/personal issues is certainly a very good idea.
It's something I've never done myself up to now though; perhaps I should learn how it is done.
I do hope that your family issues have improved and that you can see your way clear to some sort of resolution for all concerned. I am sure you are working extremely hard to make everyone as physically and emotionally comfortable as they can be with the situations you outlined to me last week.
I am now much improved, having broken clear of that 'phantom' 'flu thing I experienced after the 3 in 1 jab just over 2 weeks ago.
Speak to you again soon,
Ron
Brion Gysin
frontiersman Posted Nov 1, 2005
Hi Helen,
Encrypting your postings/work/personal issues is certainly a very good idea.
It's something I've never done myself up to now though; perhaps I should learn how it is done.
I do hope that your family issues have improved and that you can see your way clear to some sort of resolution for all concerned. I am sure you are working extremely hard to make everyone as physically and emotionally comfortable as they can be with the situations you outlined to me last week.
I am now much improved, having broken clear of that 'phantom' 'flu thing I experienced after the 3 in 1 jab just over 2 weeks ago.
Speak to you again soon,
Ron
Brion Gysin
cactuscafe Posted Nov 1, 2005
hullo Mr. Ron -
glad you're clear of the flu - - - having the jabs must be tough though - I always get faint having jabs --
re last week - yes, I just put about twenty five years work into four days -- its much appreciated by all - I'm a tired but happy dog - I have decided that love is the key to many things - in fact, everything -
I have started drawing my writing - writing down one of my weird sentences, then doing a pencil design around it - it makes me deeply happy - today I was doing this in my writing class in my hometown - I am supposed to be learning about useful literary things, but I think I might just be heading for my new vocation. Fortunately for you guys I cannot draw all over the screen, so you might just be spared the next cactuscafe era -
I'll drop in for tea and a chat though --- read through things, see how everyone is - I think I might just be retiring from my mainstream literary career --- perhaps I might make a paper magazine, -kind of like a comic book - with pencil drawings, off beat dialogue and a story line that is so completely non existent, it almost means something!
nice talkin' to you my friend Ron
Helen
Brion Gysin
frontiersman Posted Nov 2, 2005
Hello Helen,
I am a little sad that you talk of retiring from your writing career. One should consider things deeply before taking such major steps away from an interesting part of one's daily and weekly activities, indeed of one's life; especially as we approach our more mature years!
Writing keeps one's mind alert and alive. It is as important as talking to your husband or wife every day, and tripping into the village, or local town, to do your shopping and exchange a few casual words with the check-out girl or the shop-keeper. We stay informed, and remain interested (and thereby interesting?).
Retreat, yes! That is good if the pressures become too much; cut down one's commitments and re-balance the priorities as needed, a good approach to maintain one's emotional and physical health as other pressures demand more of your time.
Please don't talk of retiring! It's almost like abandoning life itself!
Live for your both your family and your art. Have you ever heard of composers and painters, authors and poets 'retiring?
See you around from time to time though, I hope.
Ron
Brion Gysin
cactuscafe Posted Nov 2, 2005
hullo Mr Ron!
Thanks for what you say about retiring from writing! You are such a friend - perhaps I was a little misleading in my statement - truth is, Ron, I'm just trying to work it out as I go along!
I think I am just trying to find the balance - I will never stop writing, any more than I will stop drawing, or making music --- of that you can rest assured -- I've been scratching away in one form or another since I was five, so I ain't going to stop now ---
no - I would never let family issues stand in the way of my creative process - I would become as one dimmed and dazed ---- I hope in fact to have more time for creativity, as I have worked hard to ensure that my family are helped out by others more professional than I!
a lot has happened to me, Ron, since I joined h2g2 - I have never really come out with my writing so much before - its been really good, but it has stretched me considerably. I have never been one for the 'art world' as such - preferring instead to keep my creative processess for what they are really for - that is to keep my body and soul together!
I'm kind of happy these days with my writing voice - thanks to my friends on h2g2 - even when I am at my most bonkers! especially when I am at my most bonkers! - making no sense, strange juxtapositions of images, sentences going everywhere and nowhere! it feels like me - like my expression of the strange dream-like transient wonder of this world!
having said all this, of course, I wrote something this morning which I want to put in my journal, so you know, Ron, I am a walking mongrel of paradox and inspiration!
nice talkin' to you - have to go to Inverness this weekend to see Chris' people - cor honestly, life is never quiet
speak to you soon
Helen
Brion Gysin
cactuscafe Posted Nov 3, 2005
Hey Ron, I need advice -
I keep running into these conversations that are nothing to do with me, and yet they appear in my in-box - like the one headed 'h2g2 is going up the toilet' - (in my cc2 inbox) -
I read them, and then I realise that this particular one kind of upsets me - perhaps I should just keep my nose out -
perhaps I should just unsubscribe to the conversation and forget about it? -
makes me realise though Ron, how important h2g2 has been to me in the last six months - so something has come out of reading other peoples' coversations.
and this morning I went to my notebook with a new flame, a new passion, a new inspiration! I am a writer - even when I don't make sense! like now ...
thanks for being such a friend -
Helen
Brion Gysin
cactuscafe Posted Nov 3, 2005
PS - ignore last post - I've worked it out for myself! Just got a bit scared that h2g2 is going to end and I would miss it - but all things must change and move on I suppose! After all, I am supposed to be the one who goes on about the poetry of transience!
H
Brion Gysin
frontiersman Posted Nov 3, 2005
Hi Helen,
I read your previous note, and was a little concerned at your concern!
So I went into the '...up the toilet' piece and a number of other things.
There's a lot of 'speculation' there, and I found it a little too boring to be terribly bothered by it! I tend to skim over them with scant attention!
The 'ins and outs' of the internal politics of h2g2 is something that irritates. I was never a 'committee man' by inclination anyway; I always leave it to those who seek 'power' as a permanent condition of their brains! There's much more of interest in life than having a 'business' brain.
Perhaps you should take my attitude and not take it too seriously!
There is much stuff written on h2g2 that is merely a lot of 'hot air', and means little of real consequence.
Brion Gysin
cactuscafe Posted Nov 3, 2005
thanks Ron!
that helps. I have to watch my energy levels, and be selective!
back to my notebook then! into the Dream! into the poetry of this extraordinary life!
Helen
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