successful day

have done a poor job of reading this essay yesterday but at the point I am at there's this: "Thus, he reflected later, in an attempt at a successful day, everything, at least in moments of misfortune, of pain, of failure, when things were going wrong--the essential was to summon up the presence of mind needed for a different variety of this moment and thus to transform it, by a liberating act of awareness or reflection, whereby the day--as though this were the prerequisite for its success--would acquire it élan and its wings." 271 

what follows is worth noting because it goes with the previous post about Lacey and Repetti 

"You make it sound as though your successful day were child's play.

No answer."  

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ecstasy meant panic 

amazed at the size and emptiness of the toilets in the American Express Company near Opéra 

this whole long passage about his day  pp 277-278  so wonderful  

Day, let everything in you ripen something for me.  281

Unexpectedly, still in the dark, the thrust of joy in carrying on.

this essay on the successful day is Handke's prose poem prayer, his faith in writing, in the day, yes he does quote St Paul but it is the St Paul of "bring me that cloak I left with Carpus at Troas."

See how the snow falls past the empty bird's nest.  Arise to transubstantiation. To the next dream?

must re-read the essay some time because I miffed missed reading well the early part of it  the second part was successful!!!  

now to take up The Fruit Thief    back to the dream of story, of narrative flow  

tomorrow I can stroll in the Netherwood Park area and see the designated modernist house by Arthur Dekker, built just five years after Milner Mansion on Mackland but a generation apart in mindset. Maybe even two generations if we put Wright in there to buffer Gaw Meem from Mies.  2271 sq ft, 10k sq ft lot 4 bedrooms 2 baths  1961 vs 1966  4 beds 3 (2/12 baths)  2966 sq ft  10+k sq ft lot