The Dumb Box & Two Helens
One-eyed Afternoon [Dumb Box 17] by Ward Schumaker (This one has often seemed my favorite – Ward wrote)
and more Dumb box from Ward Schumaker
In 1950 our family thought of my aunt Helen as the most beautiful woman in Genoa, Nebraska. She was 29 years old, had two infants, was pregnant, and she was dying of leukemia
Helen of Genoa
[Dumb Box 12]
Happy birthday
Helene Cixious
French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician
Helen Cixous on youtube (Helene is speaking fluently in English)
“What do we do with the other when we create? What does the author do? What does the painter do? That is, what do we do? This is our portrait, the portrait of the artist done by himself or herself, the portrait of you by me: it is oval: the Egg of Evil. What do we do with the body of the other when we are in a state of creation — and with our own bodies too. We annihilate (ourselves) (Thomas Bernhard would say), we pine (ourselves) away (Edgar Allen Poe would say), we erase (ourselves) (Henry James would say). In short, we institute immurement. It all begins with walls. Those of the tower. Those of the chateau we enter as we follow a seriously wounded narrator. ‘The Oval Portrait’ starts like this: