Yes, you're right about obfuscation working, and I suppose
there's always a deliberate element in such politically
effective befuddlements of thought. Though part of it
too I suspect is never talking to anyone outside
of one's effective circles, where everyone else is
speaking the same mumbling mastication. I suddenly
had a weird image of Bush and Rumsfeld having a
conversation! But your line made me write this so
I'll send it for my snapshot, headache and all.
take care,
Rebecca
obfuscation works
the air is full of string
a yawn, a yarn,
the mumbled head
bandaged in knives
cannot but outcry
if it cries, a bit
of string, a silver thread,
the I of the needle is blind
Rebecca Seiferle
8:16 am Farmington NM
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From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Dec 3, 2003 7:26 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: "Sonnet: Success"
>Oh, I wish I could laugh. I'm afraid though when Rumsfeld
>is on television that he always sounds like this to me. Is
>the foot ever out of his mouth? it's always mumbling
>mastication, language as the befuddlement of thought.
If only, Rebecca
but I suspect it's deliberate: never let the enemy (anyone not part of the
Bush gang) know what you're really thinking.... Obfuscation works, sadly....
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I do not limit myself: I imitate
many fancy things such as the dull red
cloth of literature, its mumbled griefs
Lisa Robertson
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