on 8/11/01 9:18 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>> Isn't that kind of scary 'knowingness', and egotism, the same with
> insiders of
>> any arcane genre? Am I talking about poetry? Never, it scares the horses.
>>
>> Best,
>> Jill
>
> Yes, Jill, gulp, I think it can be so, but the horses here are whinnying and
> kicking at the doors at the thought.
They do that, don't they, Dave, and they never bloody stop.
> I often feel there's a distinction
> between poetry, that beautiful art, and the 'poetry world', that horrible
> place,
Yes, I too hate it. But you gotta be in the 'world' if not of it. I tried to
leave once but couldn't quite slough it all off. Even wrote my own
'dejection' ode. Oh dear.
> but that again is a primitive dichotomy, tho' one could wonder
> whether such simplified polarities are at the basis of how we think, like
> 'on/off', 'di and dum'.
It's a digital world, I guess. 1/0, etc. I've always rather liked
dichotomies (for my sins) but nearly always with a hovering third, sort of
holy ghost round the thesis/antithesis. Sorry - it's a bit late and I'm
listening to some strange Icelandic music. Scary.
Best,
Jill
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