What, no "workaround for *ownership*"? Surely suicide--the workaround for
murder--will do for slavery as well! Better to go under the cold waters of a
"lake of indifference" than suffer the fisticuffs of Mr. John S. Flowers &
Friends, I should think. (Dunno about ol' Sheila, tho.)
Cheerio,
C
on 3/7/02 10:40 PM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Christopher:
>
> <snip>
> There isn't really a workaround for *ownership*, given the starting topic.
> So do we atomise it, along the lines of film credits? Name by Mr & Mrs
> Ramsbottom, assisted by Stanley Holloway; language by Sheila Ramsbottom and
> William Shakespeare; concept by Mrs Fitzpatrick of Oldham Comprehensive;
> metrical advice by Ernest Dowson, and so on?
>
> <snap>
>
> Which still begs a question, as by pushing a series back, whether in
> philosophy or physics, we still arrive the unanswered and unanswerable
> matter of the First Cause. Unanswerable as identity.
>
> I do know about the pedigree of essentialism, while I don't think it's a
> matter of poetry having anything to fear from theory, it's just that I
> feel-think that poetry thinks more comprehensively than literary theory. Its
> roots are bi-cameral. To expand that though would require an essay,
> including an investigation of the modal nature of intelligence and
> linguistic operations which I have no intention of committing here.
>
> I have not long received a most striking missive from one Ernesto Che
> Pessoa, which I suspect indicates that statements on this list have had the
> result of radicalising Sheila Ramsbottom. Beware!
>
> Best
>
> Dave
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