Hal, unless somebody with crime on their hands can handle this one
better, and hopefully, not worse, I am going to leave you with this
query out on the lurch of your own imagination for just this once.
Imagine!
Stephen V
--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: hello, again
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 12:33 PM
Define "better" and "worse." I won't even ask about
"utopic." (Or "is.")
Hal
On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> "Ideally" is utopic.
>
> "At best" is better than what was.
>
> For better or worse, these are my "ideal responses" to your
question!
>
>
>
> Stephen
>
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: hello, again
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 12:06 PM
>
> How does "at best" differ from "ideally"?
>
> Hal
>
> On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> At best, I suspect, the words in a poem, if not the poem itself,
>> manage to attach(velcro)themselves temporarily to the reader. And
>> then dissolve away again. Ideally, I suspect, the poem may alter
>> the course of one's consciousness - as say, the way of looking
>> at a black bird caught inside a jar in Tennessee, or
>> the way one imagines Sarah Palin "dressing" a moose
that's
> been
>> taken down by a shot from the rented helicopter hunting service
>> up there in Anchorage, or one of those White House lunch
>> conversations between Rachel
>> Loden, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger back there circa 1966.
>
> "Never underestimate the power of stupid
> people in large groups."
> --George Carlin
>
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