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From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: "A Job for Captain Entropy"
> I've read it just this morning, Sunday morning when the clocks have
> cancelled summer and declared rational time back again in this state. So,
> time is unrolled but not framed. Thank you, Fred.
>
>
> Andrew
>
Max and Andrew --- deep thanks.
I think I'm trying to keep modernism going without entering the blind alleys
of post-modernism. The insight of modernism was that all past viewpoints
and expressive modes are stylistically available, if viewed with informed
irony. My insight is that they are also psychologically inescapable. Every
mind, most vocally the poet's, is an argument with all of history. From
which neither myth, nature, formal play, nor emotional reminiscence offers
any escape. "Freedom is necessity realized," said Engels. For "freedom"
one could substitute "epiphany." My only escape hatch is that history
includes the future.
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