Neil wrote:
>hasn't the whole argument got quite a lot to do with poetry? or does poetry
only happen in special secret dens made by quiet people for mutual
soothing? Like horlicks?<
Well it's probably the future of poetry, I'm afraid. It's quite clear that
under the New World Order anything critical of what goes on is Not Allowed,
unless it is critical of Other Places (i.e. un-US areas) I know there's an
element of exaggeration in my remarks there but seriously there seems to be
a developing tenor whereby nothing can be truly said but much can be said
about nothing (like much of LangPo for instance)
I'm scared of those terrible machines too, well said sirrah!
Best
Dave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Pattison" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: america
Um...
hasn't the whole argument got quite a lot to do with poetry? or does poetry
only happen in special secret dens made by quiet people for mutual
soothing? Like horlicks?
that article in the LRB last week by Anatol Levien(?) used phrases like
"world domination by overwhelming military superiority" to describe current
US policy. This is a fairly widespread conception of what is at stake at
the moment. That people can deploy that kind of language to talk about any
world power without being laughed down is really very worrying.
where I lived as a kid in west suffolk there were half a dozen US airbases
within 25 miles or so of our house. US planes used to fly low over our
house every day: those tankbusters with the huge jets, lockheed blackbirds,
F-whatevers. They used to absolutely terrify me. I'm not frightened of
terrorists, not in a daily way. But I was and still am scared of the US and
its terrible machines.
apologies for jumping in at what looked like a peacable end to the thread.
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Neil Pattison
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