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reading vs. opinionation? is that what you mean? in humans they're inseparable KS On 12/10/2007, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I just never thought I'd find an appreiciative searchbot. > > On 10/12/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > well by putting your work on the internet you're pretty much implying > > you intend an audience, don't you think? > > > > KS > > > > On 12/10/2007, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Google reads a lot ... so make that two. > > > > > > Roger > > > > > > On 10/12/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > as long as it's not his or her ONLY reader > > > > > > > > KS > > > > > > > > On 12/10/2007, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > the poet is his or hers own reader > > > > > > > > > > On 10/11/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > I just threw the cat in there because it came to mind, not as a treatise. ;) > > > > > > > > > > > > my point was that I wouldn't think of a poem written by an author for > > > > > > himself, which nobody else ever sees, in the same way as I would a > > > > > > poem intended for an audience. I would scarcely even call it a poem, > > > > > > because a readerless poem goes against some tenets of poetry that I > > > > > > hold pretty central; entertainment conveyed, messages conveyed, > > > > > > accumulating collective knowledge/experience, modifying a shared world > > > > > > through lenses. > > > > > > > > > > > > KS > > > > > > > > > > > > On 11/10/2007, Martin Dolan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > > Kasper > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure I agree with you about the readerless poem. I'm a bit more > > > > > > > sure that Schrödinger's thought experiment, applied to poetry, implies > > > > > > > that the reader-observer, by his/her act of reading, resolves all the > > > > > > > ambiguity of a poem into a single state - dead or alive. Perhaps an > > > > > > > argument for not having a reader? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "When I hear of Schrödinger's cat, I reach for my gun." (Wiki-attributed > > > > > > > to Stephen Hawking) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > kasper salonen wrote: > > > > > > > > a poem isn't a poem if the author is the only reader. Schrödinger & his cat.. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > KS > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > > > > > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." > > > > > Roman Proverb > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > > > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." > > > Roman Proverb > > > > > > > > -- > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ > "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." > Roman Proverb >