>I'm interested in your ideas about poetry, to the extent you can articulate
them, and I hope you're interested in my ideas to the extent I can
articulate
them. But as for the rest, well, I use the same language with everyone. I
don't even know if you're really a woman -- it's the internet, after all.
You
could be anyone and anything. But it's trying to have it both ways, isn't
it,
to say both that you want and don't want to be treated the same as everyone
else.<
Marcus, Alison is most certainly a woman, I've met her in person on a number
of occasions, as have others on this list, and she's a likeable lady. And
definitely not an internet persona. I am not saying this from any
partiality, I have areas of agreement and disagreement with her, but I find
those stimulating, and enjoy debate with her. I'm all for people trying to
dig out of the inarticulate something that means, g-g-ga-gaa, that rides
through us all.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Bales" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Alison's egocentric poetics
> Liz's refusal of your aggression is hardly self contradictory. At
> issue is the question of your pornographic language, in which you
> fashion sexuality into a weapon to use against a woman interlocutor,
> who is (of course) a whore, or at least a "courtesan", and your
> strange idea that this has anything to do with either erotics or
> eroticism. It just looks like good old fashioned misogyny to me.
I'm interested in your ideas about poetry, to the extent you can articulate
them, and I hope you're interested in my ideas to the extent I can
articulate
them. But as for the rest, well, I use the same language with everyone. I
don't even know if you're really a woman -- it's the internet, after all.
You
could be anyone and anything. But it's trying to have it both ways, isn't
it,
to say both that you want and don't want to be treated the same as everyone
else.
Marcus
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