"Ours" is also a country with restrooms named Walt Whitman. Do tell us more, it is just now getting interesting.
> Jaysus, Ken. Ok - the God in whom you believe- I am a professed and> practising Christian - I don't belong to any church but I go to lots,> Catholic, Anglican, Methodist etc.> > You say God and you sound like George Bush - i.e. God equals the 'manifest> destiny of the United States' that is to say to rule over everyone. The> point of relevance to poetry is that US writing is terminally bad but its> financial power means that American writers get disproportionate attention> to what they deserve, for g-ds sake, yours is a country that has Walt> Whitman as its greatest poet.> > I could tell you more.> > Best> > Dave> > > ----- Original Message -----> From: "Kenneth Wolman" > To: > Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:52 AM> Subject: Re: Colonisation> > >> David Bircumshaw wrote:>>>> >Unfortunately Alison, 'Ken, Deborah, Hal' are part of 'you lot'. Just as> you>> >are part of Rupert Murdoch or I am part of Tony Blair. One doesn't want> to>> >bear that shame, but we have it, however much we might wriggle, there is> no>> >getting away from the fact of the USA's wealth and how that is founded on>> >the poverty of others, just as, on a slightly smaller scale, the wealth> of>> >the UK and Australia is. You wouldn't be able to fly round the world on>> >writing tours (neither would have I, a few years back) unless it was for> the>> >impauperisation of others. Let's be honest about this.>> >>> >Best>> >>> >Dave>> >>> >>> David, just this last. You see, the God in whom I believe and whom you,>> I may guess, regard as a capitalist fiction resembling Henry Clay Frick,>> put you in my life for a reason: to teach me self-control, to answer in>> the most pointed yet non-inflammatory way I can, and then to leave the>> field to those who wish to self-destruct. I have a long history of>> digging myself a grave with tongue and pen. This time?--an answer but>> that is all. I will leave you with this: Have you the vaguest notion of>> how hackneyed these comments are? I expect the stuff about the US>> growing wealthy on the backs of others to come from my 24-year-old son,>> not from someone somewhat older and with more time and observation of>> the world.>>>> I can't speak to the impauperization of others that allows me to take>> writing tours, since I've never been on a writing tour. I'll try to do>> better, for I long to consort with the whores of Bangkok so long as they>> are over the age of consent. What IS the age of consent in Thailand,>> anyway?>>>> Ken>>>> ---------------------------------------->> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com>>>> 39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a> continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the>> soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.>> --St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
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