Stephen
I'd say Pepsi. (ships that have no need for approach or discourse can get
into terrible trouble, think of the Titanic. An idea of Hell - having a
nervous breakdown in a train full of the seroiusly English)
btw - I hope the Bromsgrove poet wasn't Geoffrey Hill - just imagine - a
policeman's son)
david
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Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:58 AM
Subject: Accepted opinions--take the chalenge
> >If we could agree that what we're operating in our preferences is in the
> >first place no more than an inclination, that might be a start. That our
> >allegiances and rejections are a matter largely of the psychic landscapes
> >of the self, essentially private, from which moves could then be made
> >towards objectivity and so alteriority. But if we stand on importance,
> >occulted ideologies, the assumptions of a pre-written history... well,
> >there is really zero to be said.
> >
>
> Peter. Let us see how that works in practice? Here is one poem for the
list
> to tackle, and see if it is possible to move out of our psychic
landscapes.
> It is a short poem by Robert Graves included in the Faber Book of Modern
> Versechosen by Anne Ridler:
>
> "Quayside"
>
> And glad to find, on again looking at it,
> It was not nearly so good as I had thought---
> You know the ship is moving when you see
> The boxes on the quayside sliding away
> And growing smaller---having real delight
> When the port's cleared and the coast out of sight,
> And ships few, each on its proper course,
> With no occasion for approach or discourse.
>
>
> So..... listees dou desu ka -- what do you think? The challenge. Is it
Pepsi
> or Coca Cola?
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