{"id":30427,"date":"2013-12-29T20:55:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30427"},"modified":"2013-12-29T20:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-29T20:58:50","slug":"at-a-snails-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=30427","title":{"rendered":"At a snail’s pace"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — leap frog in very slow motion, and leap razor too ]
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As a poet, I don’t much like that old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words — but there’s a density of information in each of the images below that’s worth considering:<\/p>\n

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**<\/p>\n

Two very striking images, in parallel, juxtaposed. What can we read into them, or out of them? <\/p>\n

  • That a snail’s pace is always the same, no matter what obstacles it encounters?\n
  • That slow and steady wins the race?\n
  • That you can take the easy way, or you can take the hard way<\/a>?\n
  • That you [Chinese Buddhists] can go for gradual or sudden enlightenment<\/a>?\n
  • That the snail in the upper panel (in an artwork by Nancy Fouts<\/strong><\/a>) is enacting and or paying hommage to Colonel Kurtz<\/strong>‘s celebrated line from Apocalypse Now<\/em><\/a>?
    \n

    <\/p>\n

    I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That’s my dream; that’s my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor… and surviving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  • What else? What do you<\/em> see?<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

    There’s power in images, and even more in juxtapositions.<\/p>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Daffodils<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If one picture is worth
    \na thousand words,
    \nwhat’s a bunch of Wordsworth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    **<\/p>\n

    Here the actor Jeremy Irons<\/strong> gives a refreshingly fresh reading of Wordsworth<\/strong>‘s poem:<\/p>\n

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    [ by Charles Cameron — leap frog in very slow motion, and leap razor too ] . As a poet, I don’t much like that old saw about a picture being worth a thousand words — but there’s a density of information in each of the images below that’s worth considering: ** Two very striking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,627,739,778,741,687,792,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-nature","category-photography","category-poetry","category-specs","category-time","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30427"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30532,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30427\/revisions\/30532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}