11 april 2021
John Bjarne Grover
1. Rekvika
News (here from expressen.se, here from www.tv2.no - I quote from the latter source this photo and this photo) tell of a strange object drifted ashore at Rekvika (!) on Kvaløy near Tromsø in northern Norway. It was Tine Marie Valbjørn Hagelin who found the object which looked somewhat 'ex nihilo'. It could invoke comparison with some lines from the very beginning of my 'The Endmorgan Quartet' (a 'dante-ish' walk), from poem 1, from line 15f. (written in 1997):
But in the very selfsame moment
as one of the constituents diminished,
another one expanded to the
transfinity bristling in the open slits
where you could hardly press another coin in,
or in the low esteem of a Bradley daughter.
Is it the name of the finder in the last quoted line?
I refer also to Grimm's 'Wörterbuch' vol.22 column 17 (there are 1998 columns in vol.22).
I published the article on 'Knugeplikt' two days ago.
2. Rekavik
There was on 19 march 2021 a volcanic eruption on Iceland - in Geldingadalur some 33 km off Reykjavik. My 'Birds to Saladin' is books 5-8 in TEQ, the second part after the title part 1 = 'The Endmorgan Quartet' = books 1-4. 'Birds to Saladin' has a motto - which comes from nothing, passes by like a thundering train and disappears into nothing again:
............................….. rabbit,
mocked by its own behavior,
unpicked by its own crystal,
as inganderable tocc......…...
Icelandic for 'volcano' seems to be 'eld-gos' which perhaps is the last line, while 'Geldingadalur' perhaps is the second last. The first library to which I sent my PEB, the blue metre with a 1000 years span, when it was completed in 2010 was to the icelandic national library. It is said that the last time the Geldingadalur volcano erupted was 800 years ago - could be 'Snorri' himself stood there watching the eldgos - if he existed, that is.
Added 6 december 2021:
For the further background on this complex see this article which I wrote not so long after I had found the phenomenon of the brown substance on the glass plate in the fridge and the seeds spurted around on its ceiling and walls - followed by the volcano a few days later. I quote Celan's 'Lichtzwang' poem #5 (Celan 2003 p.277) with my comments suggesting its relevance (see also this file:
| Mit Mikrolithen gespickte | = millet/rice/lentils in fridge |
| schenkend-verschenkte | = the kitchen sink where I found the lapis philosophorum |
| Hände. | = the hands therein |
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| Das Gespräch, das sich spinnt | = the defect main fuse |
| von Spitze zu Spitze, | = the wall-internal el-cord between the two electric outlets |
| angesengt von | = the substance on the glass? |
| sprühender Brandluft. | = with the millet/rice/lentils in the fridge |
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| Ein Zeichen | = connexion of semiotic unity |
| kämmt es zusammen | = in the Rekvika mystery object |
| zur Antwort auf eine | = as the answer/correlate to |
| grübelnde Felskunst. | = the beautiful volcano at Rekavik on I-Celan-d, spurting stone as from a kitchen sink drain |
It suggests that my "Stillhetens åndedrag" is the constituting logic behind the form of this mystery object.
Sources:
Celan, P.: Die Gedichte. Ed. Barbara Wiedemann. Suhrkamp 2003.
Grimm, J. & W.: Deutsches Wörterbuch. (33 volumes). DTV 1991 Nachdruck von Ausgabe Leipzig 1985.
© John Bjarne Grover
On the web 11 april 2021
Last updated 6 december 2021
