Alison,
Unwell so can't cover all in your post, incl. your innerestin main para
though I'm puzzled by imaginary silence if it isn't Wordsworthian (tranquil
restoration in noisy rooms). _Burnt Norton_ as you'll know good on
stillness/silence? but I sense you mean more, or other.
>>The private is public, the personal is political, and any slogan you can
think of- there are truths in all that, but I'm not sure how far they get
you-
Doesn't it get you to the point of insisting on a core of privacy in your
life and, _more problematically_, a politics-free personal and domestic
space.
>>Forgive me, but from here Sparty Lea sounds like a comedy sketch. I have a
lot of sympathy with an impulse >>to memorialise, but am also extremely
suspicious for various reasons of that desire to embalm experience >>in the
aspic of myth.
Given that privacy is variously besieged in this medium, in ways that we've
still got to define as prelude to self-regulation; given that we're
incorrigible mythologisers by (human) nature, then admittedly there are
dangers which we shouldn't ignore. But, that being said, this thread has
allowed testimony to displace- possible- hearsay (I haven't seen the piece
concerned), and for my money, that's a step _out of_ the aspic of myth. This
is also where I'm with Peter over possible chapbooks (despite Anselm's
brilliant title:--he gets my vote for Titlefinder-by-appointment!) because I
think that would contribute to the wrong sort of 'memorialising'. We might
also, in all humility, (and here I take the point implicit in your
argument), take note of that line from the Parsons poem quoted by Nate
Dorward, 'memory obfuscates and fancy obscures', where consequences are
combined with analysis in the active/passive of the verbs. 'Slijtage' in
(bad) Dutch, wear & tear in English. The Chevalier tendency.
One more quote, EP's on warring individuals, clans: _Their asperities
diverted me in my green time_. Take it at a communal, rather than individual
level, and it covers your 'comedy sketch' divertissement, and counts the
cost as well. Not at all to travesty what this SL 'airing' has thrown up,
but delayed and tentative olive branches in final sentences 33 years on help
us all whether we see it or not,
Best,
John
P.S. Don't know Lotringer's book but will look out for it. Title?
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