Christopher mentioned Gordon Pask, who was influenced
by Spencer Brown but whose work I don't know. (Could
you supply some titles and/or sample passages,
please?)
Christopher also wrote (in response to Doug's quoting
of Erin Moure on "boundaries"): "But what if one
forgets about boundaries and responds instead to, say,
'desire'?" How can one? Desire itself is a response to
boundaries, isn't it? Aren't we always already
_inside_ GSB's circle, while everything we want is
outside it and/or inside its own impenetrable membrane
of another circle, thereby doubling the boundary?
Great poetry seems to me to be driven by frustrated,
unmet desire, and to strive itself for the ability to
cross its own (linguistic) boundaries--an exercise as
futile as desire itself, yet the very thing that keeps
poetry being written.
As for Fred's merging circles, I don't see
"subsumption" there so much as the beginning of a
gyre--widening or narrowing, I wouldn't presume to
say.
Candice
as I raise my head to broadcast my objection
as your latest triumph draws the final straw
who died and lifted you up to perfection?
and what silenced me is written into law.
(R.E.M.)
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