Jaysus, Ken. Ok - the God in whom you believe- I am a professed and
practising Christian - I don't belong to any church but I go to lots,
Catholic, Anglican, Methodist etc.
You say God and you sound like George Bush - i.e. God equals the 'manifest
destiny of the United States' that is to say to rule over everyone. The
point of relevance to poetry is that US writing is terminally bad but its
financial power means that American writers get disproportionate attention
to what they deserve, for g-ds sake, yours is a country that has Walt
Whitman as its greatest poet.
I could tell you more.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 2:52 AM
Subject: Re: Colonisation
> David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
> >Unfortunately Alison, 'Ken, Deborah, Hal' are part of 'you lot'. Just as
you
> >are part of Rupert Murdoch or I am part of Tony Blair. One doesn't want
to
> >bear that shame, but we have it, however much we might wriggle, there is
no
> >getting away from the fact of the USA's wealth and how that is founded on
> >the poverty of others, just as, on a slightly smaller scale, the wealth
of
> >the UK and Australia is. You wouldn't be able to fly round the world on
> >writing tours (neither would have I, a few years back) unless it was for
the
> >impauperisation of others. Let's be honest about this.
> >
> >Best
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> David, just this last. You see, the God in whom I believe and whom you,
> I may guess, regard as a capitalist fiction resembling Henry Clay Frick,
> put you in my life for a reason: to teach me self-control, to answer in
> the most pointed yet non-inflammatory way I can, and then to leave the
> field to those who wish to self-destruct. I have a long history of
> digging myself a grave with tongue and pen. This time?--an answer but
> that is all. I will leave you with this: Have you the vaguest notion of
> how hackneyed these comments are? I expect the stuff about the US
> growing wealthy on the backs of others to come from my 24-year-old son,
> not from someone somewhat older and with more time and observation of
> the world.
>
> I can't speak to the impauperization of others that allows me to take
> writing tours, since I've never been on a writing tour. I'll try to do
> better, for I long to consort with the whores of Bangkok so long as they
> are over the age of consent. What IS the age of consent in Thailand,
> anyway?
>
> Ken
>
> ----------------------------------------
> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
>
> 39. Not observing the imperfections of others, preserving silence and a
continual communion with God will eradicate great imperfections from the
> soul and make it the possessor of great virtues.
> --St. John of the Cross, Maxims on Love (The Minor Works)
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