Okay, point(s) taken. It is good to talk about it.
Yes, the parenthetic habit lingers, doesn't it ... I notice I do it too
often too - most times I'm able to quit the brackets entirely, but sometimes
out goes the entire phrase. ('When in doubt / Chuck out.')
Andrew
On 21/03/2008, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:32 PM
> Subject: Re: "Being and Time"
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> > Yeah. Grand poem, Fred.
> >
> > I'd pull part two out and make it another poem, and edit out the
> > parenthetical comments. But, hey, it's your poem, not mine. Maybe I'm
> > stealing hubcaps off a Bentley.
> >
> > And I too like the image of you opening your mind and yelling, 'Who's in
> > there?'
> >
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> I think Part 2 is integral, Andrew. Its paradoxes - the student's
> creativity being linked to her masochism; people with vision being
> condemned
> to dig in darkness, forgetting if they seek wealth or escape - are
> connected
> to other paradoxes in the poem. Reason being unable to triumph except by
> miracle. The speaker in Part 4 cherishing retroactively - enumerating her
> objects - someone he could not love when she was alive. Hope (the last
> thing in Pandora's box, and the last "thing" in the universe) being a
> poison. And hope being effective only if the arrow of time is reversed,
> and
> the past becomes as malleable as we think the future is, and (by
> implication) Epimetheus, not his brother Prometheus, becomes the
> clear-sighted one. --- You're right that I use parentheses too much; it's
> a
> quirk I've been trying to fight. But the voice in Part 2 is very
> professorial, and profs speak (at least this one does) in parenthetic
> quibbles.
>
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Andrew
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