Thank you Clifford, this post is superb, it's a hoot - hell I hope you
meant it that way.
I'm laughing out loud here and it's my third reading. Make that the
fourth.
It's like the beginning or end or middle (let's say the middle, no
alright the beginning) of an infinite inventory of possible seeds of
mantras, itself a mantra, reciprocally offering for selection the best
mantra (for the nonce) out of countless ones which
all best express the ability to subsume dichotomies, and to assume the
voices which announce divergence and those that contain it, as well as
those that do neither, and those that don't even do that (and the ones
that do).
It reflects on the possibility of reflection in the very looking glass
into which we are always peering, even when we look away.
And it's a litany which stops only to be polite, out of consideration
for the god as well as the supplicant - it stops not because it has to
(having reached the end) but because there is no end but (as it's
said) to make an end is to make a beginning, and why not do that too?
and why not do both?
What if it's also a prose poem?
Nicholas
> From: Clifford Duffy <[log in to unmask]>
> I find that the point you are making here is quite interesting.
And useful
> and requires some reflection; the mind body thing and the verse
prose thing
> andthe wave particle thing; perhaps its best to see them as all
being merely
> various ways of seeing the figure and ground, the tweedledee and
tweedledum,
> the shem and shaun, the cain and able, the greek and jew the body
and soul,
> the female and male the ying and yang and so on: its not a matter
for
> contradiction but one of levels and placement and relation; I see no
> necessary exclusion of one to the other; its a leaves of grass
thing; parts
> of the parsing literary machine; plateaus, the connections of
various parts
> and verses and adveses and reverses, the works of the word in regree
> digress; a detour of jazz; of improvization; etc.
>
> ---
> >From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> >The prose / verse distinction is rather like the mind / body
> >distinction--looked at from one perspective, the differences are
> >irreconcilable; looked at from another perspective, the differences
> >don't exist. Both perspectives--& positions between them--are
useful,
> >functional, depending on the context of the discussion or the
problem
> >being addressed. Is light a wave or a particle . . .
> >
> >jd
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