candice
it sure ain't poissonal but what i can't stomach, along with sugar, is
a) any wisp of a suggestion of an identity between 'encrypted' and
'figurative', even tho' statisticians, the ghost of Noah Webster and most
casual passers-by on the Big-Mac'd streets may like to 'figure things out'.
Figures may lurk in the shadows unoriginally or be unattainable desires but
they most definitely are projections, they are forward.
Encryption, as well as burial, desires to keep others out. A poetry that
centres itself on encryption really is open to the hoarse from shouting
charge of 'elitism'.
b) any notion of a supposed 'totality' as a closed system in the posssession
or control of its keymasters and adepts. If I claim to 'know' totality I
abolish the future, I starve all others of tomorrows and development. Paint
its symbols I may, but the only totality 'I' can know is relative, partial,
incomplete. Unless that is I wish to self-seal into solipsism.
A perfect, inviolate tomb. An absolutist's room.
david bircumshaw
(btw - the brit phrase is 'for yonks')
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Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:56 PM
Subject: Fw: Fw: Sugar factory
> "Whew," you "boys" sure seem to be tearing the "cap" off "right
> at/the verbal root" (25) of the sweet tooth, it seems to me:
> Doesn't "salt" get "swap[ped] for molasses" (19), just one
> (ram)page before the "sugar babes" arrive in the wake of
> "British Sugar/to sweet that pill"? Love your "Sugar Baby Love,"
> tho, J., and would add only that "Sugar Babies," like their
> progenitor, the "Sugar Daddy," makes for a fine American caramel
> candy (or "sweet," as I think they say in your land--I'm very
> partial to the sweet you call "Smarties" myself). And Henry's ref.
> to song is quite apropos to all of Prynne's work, I'd say.
>
> Can't crack the refs. to "encrypted sweets" and/or "Monsieur Prynne
> and cryptology" in other posts of the day, tho, at least not in
> relation to the accusative tone they've employed, which I don't
> take poissonally even if it does seem fishy because my post about
> encryption yesterday focused on a poem by Randolph Healy, while
> what I said about Pandora in _Triodes_ had to do with her (trad
> poetic) use as a _figure_. If you're breaking with convention is
> so extreme as to reject poetry as a figured/figurative lit'ry
> mode, Peter, then you must be a way more radical dude than you
> realize (which has been my suspicion for many a--how you say?--
> yonk).
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> >Thanks for the correction, Mark & excuse the Italian. I was 'hearing' the
> >inverted phrase in the first line. This seems to be the time to say I
think
> >I mean _Sugar Baby Love_ J.
> >
> >
> >>Small pedantic note: the madrigal is "Zefiro torna," the west wind, i.e.
> >>Springtime.
> >>
> >>
> >>At 03:54 PM 7/26/2000 +0200, John Temple wrote:
> >>>Nate, about the zephyrs, Zephyrus is the Greek god of the west wind,
> >subject
> >>>alike of Shelley's Ode and a very beautiful Monteverdi madrigal 'Torno
> >>>Zephyro'. The west wind brings us the sugar, integral part of the
> >triangular
> >>>Slave Trade. Does tri- ring any bells here ('trikot' etc) lurve
triangle;
> >>>try odes; odium related to odi :i hate: 'race hatred's package tour'
> >>>(PTW) --jes' riffin'-- Thought the following (though this is familiar
> >>>history across the pond, i guess) was piquant, under _Rhode Island rum
> >>>triangle_ (now there's a headline for the National Inquirer of
> >yesteryear!)
> >>> 1764 Sugar Act [I summarise] prompted 'the first act of outright
> >>>violence against the British Crown in the period leading up to the
> >American
> >>>Revolution. [townspeople of Providence, protecting smugglers of sugar
and
> >>>molasses. (see Encycl. Brit. XV, p808). Providence another homonymous
> >city??
> >>>Enlightened states??
> >>>Best,
> >>>John
>
>
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