David Bircumshaw:
>There is a Buddhist tradition about this century being the Age of
>Destruction in which the human race will be vastly reduced in numbers. Not a
>pleasant thought that.
Yes. And Dogen, in the thirteenth century, was already dismissing
this aspect of Buddhism as the claptrap it is. Why should anybody
accept anything as true just because 'there is a tradition'?
>Put Shakespeare in a Tasmanian tribe during the nineteenth century
>exterminations and the result is no Shakespeare.
Duh!
>What we, as poets, and I find it funny to use that 'we' as I find myself
>increasingly forced into a kind of Bohemian individualism while becoming
>more and more convinced of the falsity of individualism, is to start at
>least opening paths into a language that brings back together what is being
>pulled apart, how that should be done I haven't the faintest, but I know it
>is what is calling to us, calling, calling.
Given you find it so "funny to use that 'we'" how come you're so
certain about what's "calling to us," might I suggest that, while you
still haven't answered my recent question as to how you'd distinguish
what you're saying from superstition, your assertions are getting
ever-nearer to the most abject nonsense?
I'd be delighted, of course, to have you demonstrate otherwise, but I
sense something telling me, telling me, that you'll evade the point
as usual.
Trevor
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