Yours: "Found your reply in the archives. I'll add that you found the long
tradition of attempting to read--"perform" as you appear to attempt to do,
L-- organic forms within nature, a "silly" idea. That should get a giggle
when I present this paper next year."
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I said: "It is an odd defence of the work [D A N] to associate it with "the
search for Adamic, Angelic or Universal languages". That just isn't in it.
It's a silly idea."
The silly idea there is to associate Domestic Ambient Noise with "the
search for Adamic, Angelic or Universal languages". Silly because there is
nothing in D.A.N. to support the idea. You just asserted it.
You have taken *this position, applied to one thing, and applied it to
something else.
I do not know where else organic forms would be but within nature; but what
do you mean by nature? I I can live without an answer.
You speak of a long tradition of attempting to read organic forms. Well, it
has nothing to do with me or with D.A.N.. Nor does a tradition justify
anything by being a traidition.
I do not accept that the appearance of the world can be *read, not in the
sense that one might read to perform. I can enjoy it. I can transform it -
over and above the transformation that is involved in the acts of
perception. There *are poets who think they can read nature. I've heard
them. I have joined in sometimes; but I was young then. Their search seems
something like that search for "incandescent poetry without substance" which
I compared to the use of bad or fake scientific experimentation - the
comparison which started this thread.
That comparison "rather amused" you and so you had to tell me how your
professors were "amused" by some Writers Forum items. And now, glory be, you
are hoping for a giggle. It's one long happy riot in Japan, isn't it.
Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't want to spoil your opportunity to get a
giggle during your paper. An oasis is be cherished. But I do want you to be
clear that there is no basis for what you seem to be saying.
L
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