Timeline
A mythology of Dada Saheb Phalke
In which we keep time in years, each year like a woman's saree, gathering so much into its pleats. Each year aware that it is a lie, seeking to do what electronic eyes try to do in factories, seeking to be wakeful to everywhere at once, seeking to name the everywheres. Each year is a gathering of eyes thrown over the waters of consciousness of which we know little, except that they are and they torture us when they don't trouble us. We seek to sort, to catch some fish in our nets, freezing events in photographs, choosing and narrating memories, spitting on walls, ...these children of our consciousness, they wait for other eyes what will help them become new stories by themselves. Our projector keeps whirring, letting off sweat drops like in some old cartoon. ( must go to vipasana?)
We start out work with an invocation to her who sits on the lotus and again and again, puts a needle in those old grooves, letting them scratch. This can only be a mother, or a child, or a friend dear enough to become like either. Saraswati we invoke you, we salute you, you patient, loving archivist of our scratchy sounds.
The very vanity of the enterprise, when it finally makes me move, pulls me in further, and me and me and me. Like a large gathering of locusts, we scatter, making a new sky
A timeline must be fed. What is the shape of the monster?
A time line of postcards
1921 . 1922 . 1923 . 1924 . 1925 [[2]]
1926 . 1927 . 1928 . 1929 . 1930 1931 . 1932 . 1933 . 1934 . 1935 . 1936 . 1937 . 1938 . 1939 . 1940 . 1941 . 1942 [[3]]
Advertisement Before 1946
World History Timeline studying the world between the wars [4]
1861.
