On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 09:38:34 -0500, Richard Dillon <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Erminia
>
>
>Rent a safety deposit box at The Bank of England. Lord Archer
>employs this method as did Bishop Berkeley and Lady Thatcher, I
>believe. Blimey Wigglesworth, the Surrealist, banked there in the
>old days, and so can you.
I had not though of doing that since I am still stuck in the old utopia of
communal possession (most of all, what belongs to others becoming mine
too)...Private poetry, as much as money and families, is not my idea of
the perfect life, consequently also a safety deposit box.
Properties causes favoritisms and corruptions also among the arts - arts
should only belong to museums - these are the only acceptable safety
deposit banks -and museums should be admission free. The poet should write
and deposit immediately what they have produced in the hands of the State,
who will safeguard it (there should be selected Guardians for this
mansion, as in Plato's ideal Republic). I know that this is an
old "refrain" of mine, properties, communism, Plato and so on....Also
Rousseau is to be quoted in relation to an issue such as this "safety
boxes for possessions". What right do I have to demand retribution and
possession for doing what I have never been asked to do?
One should in the first place be given "universal consensus" to claim to
possess an authorship of something...Rousseau instructs me to give what I
possess to those who were not given these benefits (of poetry, for
instance...)
>Have your children memorize your poems instead of Mother Goose.
They are both computer-oriented, so they might do it for me....
>Broadcast them, then for certain they're out there to be retrieved in
>the Akashik Records by a trained Golden Dawn psychic, like the lady
>pianist medium who played Chopin's current etudes in a trance.
Done it...
>Take heart. That thief knew the old saw: Fate deals its cruelist
>blows to the most talented.
I shall stop protesting about the thief who stole my bag and files and
wasted all my poetry because it had for him no value immediately
translatable in his personal gain....
If the thief is an admirer of poetry, than I hope he will not try to
publish it under his name, since most of the content of those files have
already been published and therefore he would get into legal trouble.
>
>All may not be lost, remember: Buster Douglas knocked Mike Tyson
>cold stone out, so give Lennox the benefit of the doubt. If Tyson
>has them, there's still a chance he'll tell all if we can get him to
>one knee.
>
>A better example: Balzac wrote - what? - a Saturn cycle's worth (29)
>of novels as mere practice.
>
>There's much beauty in your truth, Ermenia, I've noticed. And the
>magician always has another one up her sleeve.
That's too kind of you - if sincere. Thank you....(it makes me cry, now
that I am an orphan and therefore neglected ....)I'd love to be a
magician, I will see what I can do....
>
>Count your blessings, Pilgrim, you were vandaled in Oxford, you don't
>want to imagine what might have happened had you been in Los Angeles.
A friend of mine is moving to Los Angeles because he things that there are
lots of angels down there: so, is it not true?
>When climbing the highest mountain, after the storm clears and the
>last campsite is broken down and you can't go back, the light ahead
>will require going forward empty handed. Maybe you'll pick up a lost
>pencil atop Chomolungma; I can report to you that there was one
>[snapped in two] for me in jail.
>
>Richard
>
Erminia (with regards and thanks for your communal sympatise. My loss is
giving me but headaches)
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