John Bennett said:
>Wittgenstein compared language to 'an ancient city: a maze of little streets
>and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from
>various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with
>straight regular streets and uniform houses.' Philosophical Investigations,
>para 18 - but what now - suburbia?
which leads me to bpNichol's 'cloudtown,' in The Martyrology, which he saw
as ever shifting & ambiguous, like language (or the cloudtown, the town of
change, was language). That vision sustains the poem throughout... (Nichol
knew his Wittgenstein intimately).
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
O deceptive mouth
covering up
for the heart like that.
Jenny Bornholdt
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