walk in prose, dance in poetry - Sartre, I think
On Jan 7, 2008 12:59 PM, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It's an interesting binary formulation that uses the terms as metaphors.
> What other terms could we plug in? You run in poetry, you walk in prose?
> (Though logically the order should be reversed in that one.) Awake in prose,
> asleep in poetry. You cook in prose, you eat in poetry.
>
> Rhetorically, it's an example of antithesis, which, politics aside, is
> something the Clinton campaign desperately needs to do right now, painting
> Barak Obama as "poetry" in a denegrative sense. Poetry can't possibly be
> serious, after all. It's one of those "edxtras" or "frills" we cut out of
> the education budget when we have wars to fund. Hmm . . . I guess that
> wasn't "politics aside" after all!
>
> jd
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> On Jan 7, 2008 6:17 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Just encountered this formulation:
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> >
> > At a raucous rally in a high school gymnasium in Nashua, Clinton skewered
> > Obama for several votes he has cast in the Senate, such as his vote in
> > favor of the Patriot Act and for energy legislation she described as "Dick
> > Cheney's energy bill." She never mentioned Obama's name but left no doubt
> > about whom she was discussing.
> >
> > "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton said.
> >
> >
> > Barry Alpert
> >
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> Joseph Duemer
> Professor of Humanities
> Clarkson University
> [sharpsand.net]
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