yes we can be illogical but that we recognize the fact that we are being
illogical is all that is needed to assure what i have been saying. this
structure must have come before language, for we know that our language can
not change the facts as they are but only conforms to them.
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:17:06 -0700, Douglas Barbour
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>But in poetry, even in a bad line, we can be illogical; language, as your
>examples show, & as the rise of lyng, perhaps with the rise of language,
>shows, actually does that thing:
>
>"I die, I fall, I fail"
>
>after all, what's a meta for?
>
>Douglas Barbour
>Department of English
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
>(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
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>
> Seven years' devotion
> to a liberal cause
> hasn't altered
> the plum tree.
> CK Stead
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