>Here's my important question: What's the
> reason for feeling so resistant to the light peeking through the barely
> opened door?
This is a difficult question to address, Kent, because the ramifiactions of
articulation are so wide. I think my uneasy ground centres around notions of
relationship, the Other, and trust, I don't feel easy with aspects of
post-modern flip because they seem to deny the very fragile ground that does
exist for ethical behaviour, ie our threadbare, partial, occasional,
mood-dependent awareness of the equal reality of others.
That is no more than a sketchy wave of an answer. I'm just wary, I guess.
I'm glad tho' we've got a message through on notions of futurity, I'm sure
I'm capable of seeing imaginative art as capable of standing outside time,
in the quantum space of consciousness, tho' I'd emphasise I do concede a
notion of artistic progress within specific lines of refinement, but not
though on an absolute scale of value.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "kent johnson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: reply to David and Alison on "poets' selves"
> David B. said:
>
> "...poets will always be saddled with their selves... whatever tactics
poet
> will use they will always be the hosts for their questionable problematic
> selves."
>
> I couldn't agree more, David, (as I agree almost entirely with Alison's
very
> thoughtful post), and I don't see how you get anything to the contrary
from
> what I have said. Waht Pessoa did, thus enriching *his own* and *our*
> "questionable, problematic selves" is to saddle new, utterly fascinating
> poets with selves, selves who commented on the problematic selves of their
> comrades and other "actually existing" (dead and living) poets, including
> Pessoa himself. The vehicle (and you are right, as I think I clearly said,
> that Pessoa's vehicle is only a hint and no "blueprint") creates a kind of
> ontological chamber that makes poetry and life more various and complex
and
> interesting. That's the reason. Here's my important question: What's the
> reason for feeling so resistant to the light peeking through the barely
> opened door?
>
> Now, one important qualification that both you and Alison bring up, and
> which I want to think about more. I have, indeed, used "futural-progress"
> type tropes in talking aobut the matter here and elsewhere, and I think I
> want to think more about that and the assumptions behind using such
figures.
> So thank you to both you and Alison for htat.
>
> Kent
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