Kent
I didn't even notice your typo, I do enough of them myself.
And I wasn't thinking of 'rudeness of behaviour' in poetry, but in that
simple (ha ha) world of our own actions, that's all.
And surely 'poetry' is transaltable to that.
Best
Dave
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From: "kent johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:03 AM
Subject: mycolon
> Yes, I *really do* know how to spell that word, mycology, though I'm
really
> a mycophagist, only, and a dilettantish one at that who only eats
> non-agarics.
>
> I don't know, "David Bircumshaw," but I'd say (insofar as you are speaking
> of an unjustifiable rudeness in poetry, whatever that could be) that there
> would be different ways of dealign with the issue. You might, for example,
> say to the offended party, requesting their confidence, that it was I,
> "David Bircumshaw," who offended you, and I'm sorry. Or you might be more
> honest yet, and allow the author who committed the rudeness to beg
> forgiveness in her own name, as it was, after all, she who said the bad
> thing. But I would imagine there would be other ways of dealing with the
> problem, and all of them might be perfectly ethical. It's a case by case
> situation, isn't it?
>
> Why are the English so famously adverse to fungi?
>
> Kent
>
> ------------
>
> Still tentative here, Kent, and not necessarilly on focus, as I've just
been
> out for a pint following England's victory over Greece in Athens, with a
> brilliant winning thirty-yarder goal by Becks, even tho' he has a silly
> voice, but I'm still mullingly pondering this matter of identity.
> Say, for example, if 'David Bircumshaw' misbehaves in some way, say for
the
> sake of argument he's rude to someone, without justification. Well then I,
> as the allegedly responsible adult, have to take some kind of ownership of
> that issue, not without reluctance, for sure, nor necessarily perfectly,
but
> I have to to try to 'be there', to sort out the mess that twit's got me
into
> this time.
>
> I don't mean this as a condemnation of other cultures, I'm just talking
from
> where I am now and here. And, also, surely dismissing the self can
translate
> so horribly easily into unconcern for others, like in old people's homes,
or
> viscious violent trenchlines of the past?
>
> Impressed by the mycology.
>
>
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