On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, brian bransom griffiths wrote:
> [snip]... Cambridge and London... [snip] ... Enough on that score.
- quite so.
> I query that there is a post-Thatcherist era at all.
> We are still living, as far as my observation goes, with all the
> unpleasant assumptions of the Mother Goddess:
> That is, a sort of chaoticist and pseudo-Darwinian individualism
> and competitiveness that denies any assessment apart from a material one.
- seems right to me!
> let me say I do
> have a positive view of the arts: simply, that the human is infinite,
> and can be the source of any amount of new ideas, new environments,
> new concepts of what the human can be and experience. I am not keen
> on using historical jargon or critical writing or verse itself, to
> limit what a human might be or demonstrate what a human should be. I
> find it hard to empathise with those who are trying to stop
> new writing going ahead and discredit any experimenting. History, of
> course, can be used to create just such limiting concepts....
- with Bill on this!
> Tim Fletcher of 'First Offence' has recently written to original
> objectors and to subscribers to the magazine, setting out my
> correction of fact with the rider 'If this be true'. This is
> far from the simple corrigendum I called for many weeks ago,
> and that was so brusqely refused. But perhaps it is a teeny step
> on the path to accuracy.
- Teeny steps are good steps in Balkan diplomacy. I welcome this.
RC
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