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Likewise. And the alternative is mostly for those who have no other choice. At 11:21 PM 9/10/2001 +0100, you wrote: >> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of >bourgeois >> society. By the way > >Yes, Mark, we do. > >Altho' I can claim impeccable Brit working class credentials I'm very aware >too that my relative poverty is wealth by the standards of the Third World >and as well I have no idea what investments my company pension fund derives >its returns from. > >Mea culpa, altho' I'm very innocent by nature. > >Best > >Dave > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:59 PM >Subject: Re: Postmodern?/more baroque > > >> You don't really mean that. Just throw anything at the page? Learn nothing >> from the practice of one's craft? >> >> Of course I could say that any prestructured project reifies hierarchy, >but >> that would be pretty dumb. Also tactless and (intellectually) immature. >> >> If you don't want to engage an argument just say so. This sort of sidestep >> just pisses me off. I have a hard time abiding political accusations or >> fools in silence. Reminds me, I guess, of the endless arguments of my >> adolescence about who was a better Trotskyist. >> >> While we're at it, you do, like most of us, suck at the trough of >bourgeois >> society. By the way. >> >> Mark >> >> At 08:49 PM 9/10/2001 +0100, you wrote: >> >On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:29:39 -0700, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> >> >wrote: >> > >> >>The links between the >> >>>poet and the literary/cultural theorist is somehow unavoidable. I >myself >> >>>do not believe in spontaneity and I hope that behind each poet there is >a >> >>>project not merely a vent of words, an outburst of tears or joy, the >> >desire >> >>>to give find expression for one's wrath. >> >> >> >>Theorists, some of them poets, will continue to theorize and >occasionally >> >>invent isms, but the impact of the link is certainly avoidable if theory >> >>follows from, is derived from, practice. >> >> >> >>Writing spontaneously doesn't mean writing egotistically. Writing with a >> >>project in mind often does. One is finally only protected from oneself >by >> >>tact and maturity. >> >> >> >>Mark >> > >> >By the way: tact and maturity are no reelvant measures for poetry. >> >these are good measures for bourgeois society. >> > >> >erminia >> > >> >