Rebecca,
Many thanks for those comments. The abstract machine stuff I do have a
concern with as it risks buying into a sort of death of the subject
anti-humanism which I am not comfortable with, especially given the
reactionary sort of politics that seems to arise from this, but then I
have problems with humanist philosophy, too. It is following what is in
between, perhaps, something that is profoundly human and really cares
about people that interests me most. That is why the response I sent
seemed the more honest reply.
Anyway, can't say much more. I am deeply into Patrick White's novel _The
vivisector_ right now and getting really behind with the novel, as I am
supposed to have it ready to copy edit by June! So may have to cut of
discussions on this list.
I really enjoyed the thread on translation, too. I really like the
duende of Spanish poetry, but have enough Spanish to read it very slowly
with a dictionary, not that I have done this for many years now. It is
something about getting a feel for a people, I guess. The thread gave me
a lot to think about in terms of all the problems involved in doing
this, not that I can translate... that sounds too hard to me.
best wishes
Chris Jones.
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 03:02, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> Chris,
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> Thanks for all the Patrick White excerpts, so interesting with all that correspondence between the body and the body of the world, and thanks too for your own text here. A sort of lovely weaving, and I have to say I "get this" much better than I do the "queer abstract machine." It's something about the nature of abstract thought about human experience that I have a sort of resistance to, I think. I have heard about these fish, somewhere, on some nature show. It never rains fish here, but we have the miraculous appearance of toads, in the spring, hundreds of them, the size of the tip of your small finger, leaping through the grass for a day or two and then disappearing. I particularly like the energy of these fish that seem to take over the landscape and the way that you and the cowboy be/come
> these fish, as if the landscape became incarnate.
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> Best,
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> Rebecca
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