While I'm contemplating an attempt to rescue the "Mozambique" debate (I
refuse to be rushed by electronic posting habits) and possibly at the same
time put in a few remarks to clarify these actually very difficult and
complex zones we are getting into which are loaded with a mass of unspoken
assumptions on all sides not to mention a lot of bad temper which is quite
understandable on the run-up to Christmas when most people have to
participate in rituals they don't believe in and "your country" is at a war
you weren't even told about..... , I thought I would just keep my oar in
by repeating---
No one has attempted to answer the question asked by Yeats. Gogarty risks
his life for the Irish cause, literally, bullets splashing round him as he
swims the river.... He gets home, dries himself, recovers, and writes a
short poem about daffodils. Someone shouts ''TRAITOR!" ---- is that it, is
that the scenario of "radical poetry"?
/PR
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