>This may be misplaced romanticism, and therefore +dumb+, but I've sometimes
>found "poor dispossessed sized by stupidity" (sic: an interesting slip
twixt
>cup and lip)on the streets have a vein of shrewd and humourous wit (in all
>senses)
noone of the poeple that I know as being medically recognised as mentally
impared, therefore "stupid", has ever been emploied by capitalist
companies, offered jobs by multinationsls, and so on...(they do roam around
in the streets, unassited) but not in Italy: here they do not roam around
lost, in fact I know lots of stupids who are emploied on permanent basis by
the Italian State, this shows you how generous and protective some
Republics can be... You can see them seated there at their work place,
sometimes staring at you from behind the glasses of a post-office or a
museum gate with wide-opened eyes or drawling saliva from their slach lips.
often lacking in the "successful" reigning in the world Erminia
>apparently rates so highly.
>Martin
Do I? I did not realize it…….,This might be , then, you make me think,
your personal erotic fantasy on me: matter of fact, here I am, enchained to
my desk, locked in my studio, dressed in black, profoundly melancholy,
unseen, unheard (except by you, guys), deprived of all powers (meaning that
I once had them? no)...Engulfed between Quine and Levinas, Kristeva and
Barthes….. Also disquieted by the fact that so many people are out there
ready and content to define themselves poets as well as stupids. I think
you need to come back with your feet on the ground: I see you floating in
the air, lighter and lighter: I call: Martiiiin, Daaaaaaaviid. I shout :
Robiiiinnnnnn, come down , be reasonable, sweeties, do not be silly, but up
you go, high you fly, sized by your wonders, your dreams, your deliriums,
and disperse........like little fat cute winged people....Ohhhh. There he
is...and look , another down there, almost sinking in that big cloud, it is
Marttiiiiin. (Then all of a sudden, a riffle: Gone.)
Erminia
(NB: By the way, the amazing ability that you have to change subject: we
were arguing about the term “stupidity”, its etymology, which is Latin, and
then about its usage, first in the romance languages, then in the
Anglophone ones…. since this was the point of controversy...the debate was
about that particular use of the word "stupidity" in relation to poetry and
poets). Why shall we now discuss about "dull", if Alison said "stupid"? It
makes my mind go in a whirld when you behave with such an butterfly’s....
attitude.
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