ALISON JUST GET THE NEXT BOOK DONE !!!P:-)
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From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:40 AM
Subject: Re: 'On Lionel Kearns' and 'What About Poetry'
> On 8/11/04 11:17 AM, "Geraldine Monk" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Now we all hold our breath for Alison's antipodal outrages to hit the
cyber
> > fan! I didn't dare tell her half of it.
> > I'm ducking for cover on Mr Paterson's behalf - the poor blighter.
>
> My dear G
>
> You overestimate my energies to an alarming extent. I am a meek and
gentle
> creature, as you know, even when I'm not drowning in my own detritus, as
at
> present; would that I had a real man to whisper "twa-in-yin" in my pearly
> ones, enchanting me with all those metaphorisings that are at once
> Scientific and Magick _and_ Professional. But alack, I lack; and if I
read
> the lecture aright, in more fundamental ways as well, unless I truly
succeed
> at being a phallic woman. Metaphorisingly speaking, of course.
>
> I am, or at least have been - I am not presently especially in touch with
my
> own most recent theories - inclined to the idea of Language as the Fall,
the
> inevitable ejection from egocentric Edens when the world is Us. Ie, that
> language simultaneously alienates and enables a relationship with the
world
> - and therefore the self - that is Other than I, and with it comes a
> concomitant awareness that all this too will end. And I am certainly an
> expert in the art of failure. But I'm not sure, all the same, that I mean
> the same things as Paterson does; I think the Edenic thing is also a false
> nostalgia, which is (I am Nietzschean in this, at least) poison. I'm also
> not sure how this notion of sublime unity (infantile as opposed to
> adolescent sublime: at least the postmoderns have a few years up on
> Paterson) links up with being Professional, or with the exacting Science
of
> Verse. I'm not sure either why my diction seems to have gone all Samuel
> Johnson.
>
> > Seriously, to be challenged or, in this case, rubbished by someone can
help
> > you reaffirm or re-evaluate your own position and ideas about how and
why
> > 'we' do things.
>
> Yes, I think there is a deal of value in that.
>
> Cheers
>
> A
>
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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