At 2:57 PM -0700 5/5/03, Mark Weiss wrote:
>Which reminds me of the muse's other function--as a name given to the
>outside that it sometimes feels like the poem comes from.
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>The muse had nothing to do with that last sentence.
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>So the muse as something like Cocteau's radio or Dorn's literate projector.
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>Which again is very different from the romantic muse (or the object, for
>surrealists, of l'amour fou) about which Alison argues.
I found a useful alternative to ideas of Muse to be Lorca's idea of "duende".
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