Good points Alison, & the little of PInter's 'poems' I've seen lead me to agree with you. But I especially agree with this comment: On 8-Dec-05, at 2:47 PM, Alison Croggon wrote: > I > sometimes do think that the conflicts that are splitting our world at > the > moment are between ideologies of simpleness and complexity, those who > claim > the world is one reductive thing and those who claim it to be plural, > multiple, subtle and contradictory. And given their singlemindedness/simplemindedness, a brutal dictate that follows. Doug Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 My roof was once firm yet now it cannot even keep the stars out. Christopher Dewdney