Ian/ I love this confusion. Don't let anyone take it from you! It's the
most valuable thing. Carry on doubting and being torn two ways, there's no
other outlook. Continue to admire these experts for all the meticulous
investigation they undertake, and all the vast networks of implicit
connectivity/ theoretical Babel they build up, and all the midnight oil they
burn, and continue to doubt whether any of it has anything to do with
poetry whatsoever. And continue not to know whether a poetry of multiple or
clustered implication is the result of a wisdom which prefers to conceal
itself, or a charlatanry which develops certain techniques. And don't ask me
what the answer is.
Peter
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