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From: cris cheek <[log in to unmask]>
To: british-poets <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 24 July 1999 12:47
Subject: Re: 'nuke' followup (picking up mercury)
|Establishing a common is a political act; Diggers and Wobblies and
|Squatters rights. In writing, the territory is language. Through acts of
|language one proposes positions, possibilities. Hence a syntactical move
|might well speak directly of political transformation or environmentalism
|(the book as an environment with an ecology of materials); a neologism
|might be a naive expression of hope
.
yes to all that as long as we stress *might in might well speak directly
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an allied thought / experience
.
having taught a syllabus and having time I then taught on, extending
knowledge, enabling those who were up to it etc, not to be assessed
and someone I consider to have nothing better to do intervened - bloke in a
suit albeit tatty - and accused me of being elitist because not all would be
able to understand all
I think that was when I called him an idiot and caused myself a lot of
trouble
and I also called him elitist which caused him a lot of confusion
because he said "when you do this you raise their expectations"
whereas to me it was raising ambitions, making them see they didn't have to
wait for the go light to proceed
- asking people to do that is keeping them in a place and *that is elitist
*
I see as part of this the attitude that all writing must be immediately
understandable by the reader, that one mustn't push the reader at all - "ah"
they say, "you're elitist because I don't understand"... No *you're elitist
because you push me into being - to you - an elite... because what is called
understanding is in large part recognising - putting guide fences up - you
may play on the common but not on the Lord's domain - What are you doing on
my land? Back to your niche!
.
|Why do languages die away?
economics
.
L
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