13. Quarantine II
b'In this second QUARANTINE session we range over where we are and where we\\u2019re not, looking back to glimpse the way ahead and what the unknown feels like, through ruminations on THE CAVE IN THE SNOW, the memoir of a 12-year spiritual retreat by Tenzin Palmo (English born Diane Perry), Dag Hammarskjold\\u2019s MARKINGS, the web and the Zoom, hand wringing over hand washing, Sparrow\\u2019s dictum that \\u201cstaying home is the new activism, and Jack Spicer\\u2019s poem \\u201cIt is Forbidden to Look\\u201d\\u2014-where our discussion in and on the Great Pause took a pause. Following the form of the Spicer poem, which in part occurs within the myth of Orpheus and his descent to the underworld\\u2014-in Spicer case, following the screenplay of Cocteau\\u2019s \\u201cOrfe,\\u201d via a wall mirror-\\u2014to Eurydice back to life, after a few days we reflect on what we had said as well as keep going, touching on Ginsberg\\u2019s first reading of HOWL in 1955 and its 1980, 25th-anniversary performance, Greg Masters\\u2019 collaborative poem with Steve Levine \\u201cWell Hello\\u201d (for Arthur Rimbaud), the play \\u201cHe Who Gets Slapped\\u201d by Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, the nature of masks and marks, and a homage to women, who it turns out outstrip men as our current essential workforce.'