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:
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> > > 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>
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> > >
> > > - Peter Ciccariello
> > > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > >
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