Thanks for your thoughts Chris.
Yes, exclamation marks are problematic. I always think of them as being
positive marks, making the music of the words rise up an octave or two. The
downside is that they can also appear too light and insincere. I am actually
very fond of them, perhaps too fond.
-Peter
On 12/12/06, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Peter,
>
> I have been debating the exclamation mark at the end to myself. Removal
> of the exclamation seems to change the way it scans, but I sort of was
> wondering that I like it more without. As I say, I was debating it with
> myself... don't know what others would say...
>
> As an aside, I was feeling that all I seem to be reading these days is
> philosophy, art theory, aesthetics and literary theory and wondered when
> was the last time I read a novel or poetry and sort of almost forgot
> that I read poetry everyday on this list. I did buy a recently published
> novel a few months ago but have put it down somewhere I can't locate.
> (One of those post-modernist novels by an Australian writer. It must be
> here somewhere? It is worth reading.)
>
> > > On 10-Dec-06, at 11:40 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote:
> > >
> > > > Language as authority
> > > >
> > > > Spoken words woven through a brooding heaven
> > > > The dark Eden remains the box in the brain
> > > > Remains a spectacle of conscience
> > > > Witchcraft or your own personal pornography
> > > > This truth is beyond a suitable extension
> > > > This truth is uttered in veiled acrimony
> > > > Words written in the arrangement of a shadow
> > > > The arrangement of a box in the brain
> > > > When the direction is just like that, just like that
> > > > When the words are spoken just like that
> > > > All is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
> > > > Defining the spectacle, authority by default
> > > > Conversation as compromise, self-doubt sustains
> > > > All this spoken as the written word binds
> > > > To all that is empty, clear, and self-illuminating
> > > > To simply say when doubt arises - the town burns
> > > > The community rises hysterically against itself
> > > > The words shoot out like cannon balls and float
> > > > To the ground like pages from an abandoned book
> > > > What a ruined reliquary, your voice, your tiny, harmless words!
> > > >
> > > > Language as
> > > > authority<http://www.cgi7.com/peterimages/language-as-authority2.jpg
> >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > - Peter Ciccariello
> > > > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
> > > >
> > > >
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