> Alsion wrote
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Whoops, sorry Al, it's early here
best
dave
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From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: statement
> Alsion wrote:
>
> > There are also physicists who say the same sort of thing, in their
> > eternal Quest for the Theory of Everything. Even should they untangle
> > their strings and find it, I am completely uncertain that a Theory of
> > Everything would explain Anything, especially pressing questions like
> > "How's the soup?" or "What is the meaning of (my) life?" Which is
where
> > poetry might come in, should it care to.
> >
>
> Absolutely, especially in respect of the soup. The little philosophe,
> sitting on his armchair I see him, unaware that it was itself supported by
a
> toadstool, was deriving his satisfactions from the number-games and remote
> Columbiads of the astrophysicists, which is a parlour game, as far as I'm
> concerned, that those who want to play at The First Three Minutes or loll
on
> the the arid sands of logics are quite welcome to, but when their
'language'
> starts invading poetic speech, which operates in entirely different
> alignments, then things go awry. It's not that I disallow the use of
> scientific dialect as a sub-genre special form of poetry, but it's
elevation
> to a metalanguage of verse is disastrous.
> Just as is poetry's being in the custody of critical discourses which very
> clearly regard their own parole as superior to that of the object of their
> study.
>
> david b
>
>
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> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: statement
>
>
> > David wrote:
> >
> > >I recall reading a work by an Oxbridge philosophe who
> > >casually but smugly announced that 'by the end of the first decade of
the
> > >next century it is quite probable we shall have arrived at an
explanation
> > >for everything'. Now apart from the unlikelihood of this there was a
> > >certain point that His Smugness left begging: that We Might Not Like
The
> > >Explanation.
> >
> > There are also physicists who say the same sort of thing, in their
> > eternal Quest for the Theory of Everything. Even should they untangle
> > their strings and find it, I am completely uncertain that a Theory of
> > Everything would explain Anything, especially pressing questions like
> > "How's the soup?" or "What is the meaning of (my) life?" Which is
where
> > poetry might come in, should it care to.
> >
> > Best
> >
> > Alison
> >
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