Morrison... Yeah.
amlit338I'm going to make an attempt to blog on this thing, hope it comes out well. Guess I'll just have to "play jazz" play it by ear, improvise. As I read the story, I find myself saying "jazz" in my head after every profound, beautiful, or evoking word or phrase, or paragraph. Haven't come up with anything in particular, but I'm trying.
One thing I found interesting was the way the narrartor describes Joe and Violet's marraiage from Joe's point of view; their initial meeting in Virginia specifically.
"They were drawn together because they had been put together, and all they decided for themselves was where and when to meet at night." It's as if their relationship involved no sense of personal freedom. Like they were together because the cosmos had arbitrarily decided it so.
It's interesting to remember that their romance began in the countryside of a country state. And when contrasted with the way the characters feel about the city and the way the narrator describes the energy and essence of life there, you see the difference between a lifestyle which was ordinary and predictible, with one in which any and all things are possible "Do what you please in the city, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do." The city is pure individual freedom. Everything can be. "And what goes on on its blocks and lots and side streets is anything the strong can think of and the weak admire." The city is a place where everything is yours for the taking, if you've got the ganas. Again, pure an unadulterated freedom, well maybe not unadulterated in the case of Joe.
Jazz is all about that freedom. Within the structure of a composition, jazz more so than any other type of music allows for that individual, crazy, whatever the fuck I want attitude to take flight, to make cliche reference to the story. The drummer will take a solo, the trumept player will scream out high pitched notes that sound more like a catfight than anything resembling music. Jazz is all that insanity that takes place within structure. When some people describe jazz they'll sometimes say that everything happens between the notes. Between the notes, people act in ways, previously unimaginable: they cry harder, they laugh louder, they love like never before, and unlike anything seen before in a movie or read about in a book.
I'm definitely over-dramatizing everything, but maybe not.
The narration as well enjoys a roaming sense of freedom. Who is he? she? and where and how does he have so much insight. Morrison is a badass. Winphrey Idol of worship or not, she's a badass.
She makes me want to live like jazz. Eventhough I'm just a tool of a college kid living more in my words than anything else. God!!!
One thing I found interesting was the way the narrartor describes Joe and Violet's marraiage from Joe's point of view; their initial meeting in Virginia specifically.
"They were drawn together because they had been put together, and all they decided for themselves was where and when to meet at night." It's as if their relationship involved no sense of personal freedom. Like they were together because the cosmos had arbitrarily decided it so.
It's interesting to remember that their romance began in the countryside of a country state. And when contrasted with the way the characters feel about the city and the way the narrator describes the energy and essence of life there, you see the difference between a lifestyle which was ordinary and predictible, with one in which any and all things are possible "Do what you please in the city, it is there to back and frame you no matter what you do." The city is pure individual freedom. Everything can be. "And what goes on on its blocks and lots and side streets is anything the strong can think of and the weak admire." The city is a place where everything is yours for the taking, if you've got the ganas. Again, pure an unadulterated freedom, well maybe not unadulterated in the case of Joe.
Jazz is all about that freedom. Within the structure of a composition, jazz more so than any other type of music allows for that individual, crazy, whatever the fuck I want attitude to take flight, to make cliche reference to the story. The drummer will take a solo, the trumept player will scream out high pitched notes that sound more like a catfight than anything resembling music. Jazz is all that insanity that takes place within structure. When some people describe jazz they'll sometimes say that everything happens between the notes. Between the notes, people act in ways, previously unimaginable: they cry harder, they laugh louder, they love like never before, and unlike anything seen before in a movie or read about in a book.
I'm definitely over-dramatizing everything, but maybe not.
The narration as well enjoys a roaming sense of freedom. Who is he? she? and where and how does he have so much insight. Morrison is a badass. Winphrey Idol of worship or not, she's a badass.
She makes me want to live like jazz. Eventhough I'm just a tool of a college kid living more in my words than anything else. God!!!
posted by Spencer at 1:57 PM
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Yeah, I'd pretty much like to go to a bar with toni morrison. Mostly to see if she's just as profound when she's sloppy, as when she's sober.
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