The idea that finding a new language will resurrect our poetry from
its deadness is a delusion. What's needed is for us to be made a new
sort of people, in which case a new language will find us.
Unfortunately, this can only happen due to tectonic cultural changes
beyond the individual human will: cf. e.g. the 13th century Carmina
Burana, basically the creation of a bunch of students screwing around
with words outside of class who without realizing it laid down one of
the first and most important building blocks of the Renaissance and
became the ancestors of Elizabethan lyric.
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Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
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