<<Otherwise I might do something really stupid: like caring for people.>>
If I may be permitted to climb down from the high ironic mode for a moment,
surely THIS is why we have selves. Without the ethical self, poetry
becomes--what?--a game of language. (Not a "language game," which is defined
by a human situation.)
jd
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Times are bad. Children no longer
Obey their parents, and everyone
Is writing a book.
[Cicero]
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