On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:37:44 +0000, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Oh, it rocks. It's one of the great opening moments of, well,
>anything. But is also needs to be *seen* as an opening moment: the
>last line's apparently decisive verdict is snared up in a paradox that
>moebius-bands the whole sequence. What follows is not at all reducible
>to a series of simple, heart-felt effusions...
>
Yes, exactly, that's one of the sophistications: the poem, which is
ostensibly the cause of the advice in the last line, is also the result of
that advice, which causes the poem, which results in the advice, which ...
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