Hesitantly I offer this from the Bureau of Public Secrets, Roger - though no expert in the field; I found it googling, though I have been to this site before, sipping rather than drinking from the sauce. mjay http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/3.detourn.htm Roger Day wrote: > As soon as I saw KS's name, I guessed there'd be a sealed hermetism in > there, but *that doesn't bother me. OTOH, poetics and detourning - can > someone point me at an essay, please? Or something? > > Roger > > On 3/29/07, Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I don't really have difficulties with detour, I find it difficult to >> understand Barry's message, there is a sealed hermetism in it. >> >> On 3/29/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > >> > I've never understood detourning. What does it mean for you, Barry? >> > >> > Roger >> > >> > On 3/28/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> > > "Kool Moe Dee" is a rapper, but my reference "Cool Mo D's" conflates >> > > unsavoury aspects of that context with the behavior of someone >> close to >> > the >> > > painter being detourned, and whose identity might be puzzled out >> of my >> > > diction. Barry >> > > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ >> > "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde >> > >> > > -- The art of being civilized is the art of learning to read between the lies. - Kenneth Rexroth