But Finnegan,
I wasn't speaking of 'inspiration,' no more than I think Alison has been (I
am not sure of Kona's comments in that way). So that I think the various
forms of what Perloff neatly called 'Radical Artifice' would include the
kind of listening I speak of as much as various forms of 'given' free
writing. And I'm not at all sure that we should even introduce notions of
'truth' into this; leave that for the philosophers...? Honesty on the other
hand....
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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Although they are
Only breath, words
which I command
are immortal
Sappho (Mary Barnard trans)
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