Ah, much better put, Fred. Yep.
Doug
On 12-Nov-08, at 11:38 AM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> Re abstractions: Pound's principle of "making it new" overrides, I
> think, "no ideas but in things." You can use anything you want -
> abstraction, even cliche - as long as it is somehow
> recontextualized, revitalized.
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