Could you post the URL for the NYRB, please--MW?
(Remember that song from HAIR? "LBJ took the IRT/Down to 4th St USA....)
Candice
> No, you have to sign on, and they make you go through 6this every few
> months, but thereafter their server recognizes you when you log in--it
> doesn't automatically download.
>
> The same is true for the NYRB, by the wy, and even their archive is free.
>
> Mark
>
> At 12:00 AM 9/11/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>> Ah, it requires you to subscribe, tom, and I don't really fancy having the
>> NYT downloaded into my Inbox every day.
>>
>> So wot was it about?
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Thomas Bell, Psyd" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 9:28 PM
>> Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque
>>
>>
>>> this story from the NYTimes might be relevant here?
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/08/arts/08CONN.html
>>>
>>> tom bell
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:21 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque
>>>
>>>
>>>>> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of
>>>> bourgeois
>>>>> society. By the way
>>>>
>>>> Yes, Mark, we do.
>>>>
>>>> Altho' I can claim impeccable Brit working class credentials I'm very
>>> aware
>>>> too that my relative poverty is wealth by the standards of the Third
>> World
>>>> and as well I have no idea what investments my company pension fund
>>> derives
>>>> its returns from.
>>>>
>>>> Mea culpa, altho' I'm very innocent by nature.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:59 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> You don't really mean that. Just throw anything at the page? Learn
>>> nothing
>>>>> from the practice of one's craft?
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course I could say that any prestructured project reifies
>> hierarchy,
>>>> but
>>>>> that would be pretty dumb. Also tactless and (intellectually)
>> immature.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you don't want to engage an argument just say so. This sort of
>>> sidestep
>>>>> just pisses me off. I have a hard time abiding political accusations
>> or
>>>>> fools in silence. Reminds me, I guess, of the endless arguments of my
>>>>> adolescence about who was a better Trotskyist.
>>>>>
>>>>> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of
>>>> bourgeois
>>>>> society. By the way.
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
>>>>> At 08:49 PM 9/10/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:29:39 -0700, Mark Weiss
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The links between the
>>>>>>>> poet and the literary/cultural theorist is somehow unavoidable. I
>>>> myself
>>>>>>>> do not believe in spontaneity and I hope that behind each poet
>> there
>>> is
>>>> a
>>>>>>>> project not merely a vent of words, an outburst of tears or joy,
>> the
>>>>>> desire
>>>>>>>> to give find expression for one's wrath.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Theorists, some of them poets, will continue to theorize and
>>>> occasionally
>>>>>>> invent isms, but the impact of the link is certainly avoidable if
>>> theory
>>>>>>> follows from, is derived from, practice.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Writing spontaneously doesn't mean writing egotistically. Writing
>> with
>>> a
>>>>>>> project in mind often does. One is finally only protected from
>> oneself
>>>> by
>>>>>>> tact and maturity.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mark
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By the way: tact and maturity are no reelvant measures for poetry.
>>>>>> these are good measures for bourgeois society.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> erminia
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