Here's a comment of Hill's, from his essay on Pound
> ("Our Word Is Our
> Bond"):
>
> "The transcript of the Washington hearing (on
> Pound's wartime treachery)
> preserves a number of solemn and vacuous
> pronouncements by advocates and
> experts on both sides, but the observation that 'the
> crime with which he is
> charged is closely tied up with his profession of
> writing' has an
> ineluctability that is not diminished by its banal
> obviousness."
Poor old Geoffrey never could handle a yes/no
question. He has all the mute outrage and formless
good intentions of the stereotypical English vicar,
which is not surprising, considering the fact that the
author of that immortal line 'Theology makes good
bedtime reading' has spent his life hanging around the
fringes of the Anglican church, umming and ahhing...
Next time ask him if he wants sugar with his tea.
Cheers
Scott
--- domfox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There
isn't a single kind of possible relationship
> between the political
> behaviour of writers and the things they write
> (different writers, different
> writings...). "Compartmentalising" means carrying on
> as though there were no
> relationship at all, which I don't find myself able
> to do. If the
> relationship is often "complex", then one of the
> things this means is that
> it is very seldom the case that the writing is
> wholly innocent of the things
> the writer is guilty of. Yeats' poetry has a few
> things to answer for, I
> should think; Shakespeare's too.
>
> Here's a comment of Hill's, from his essay on Pound
> ("Our Word Is Our
> Bond"):
>
> "The transcript of the Washington hearing (on
> Pound's wartime treachery)
> preserves a number of solemn and vacuous
> pronouncements by advocates and
> experts on both sides, but the observation that 'the
> crime with which he is
> charged is closely tied up with his profession of
> writing' has an
> ineluctability that is not diminished by its banal
> obviousness."
>
> - Dom
>
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"Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon? And how
could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I have
been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life... Philosophical
problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from life,
we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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