Dear Alan

yes I think I do - altogether and openly! I've been really touched by
the ways in which this forum have made and remade connections and no
less by the sources of your material - I revisit them when I need to and
like Bergson's notion of duration they are the changes that make our
substance!

Cathie

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>>> "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]> 08/18/08 4:37 PM >>>
Dear Cathie,

Funny you should say that!

See



Monday Aphorism: Duped
August 18, 2008 in aphorisms by Harvey | No comments (edit)
I hate being taken: being taken for the jerk I occasionally am; taken
for a 
dope, a dupe. I used to get angry, try to wreak revenge, seek
retribution, 
until I heard my beloved say so clearly that I couldn't avoid hearing:
that 
the only blame that hurts, that really smarts, is the aura of
self-destruct 
and her-destruct; that vengeance hits the air and gets reflected back
into 
one's self as if the world were a deliberate mirror. I could lie, rant
and 
rave, and threaten, and curse curses, but I would do nothing!
The other day, I read a review written by a dupe. For twenty years or
more 
he had been taken, willingly, I'll bet. And the winds of time blew
time's 
ghost from pillar to the post of.a new crowd; a new insight, a next 
in-crowd, this cynic's pleasure-displeasure at watching last year's
stars 
trying to maintain their arc in public view, when the winds change. Now,

duped; now, a confessional; now, a new theory from his new camp. What's
new? 
A new metaphor. You don't like the old one - try a new one! Before it
was 
the computer as a metaphor for the brain; now it's the brain as a
metaphor 
for the mind: next it'll be.
Dupe! Dope! "Should I write a letter? I wrote a letter." Do I criticize
him, 
his conversion, his recanting, his re-telling his re-thinking? No. I use
his 
plight to attempt to understand my own. I used to be too young, too
eager, 
too much in a hurry. Now, my own dupe, I have too much to confess to my
self's 
hearing, to worry him about his.


Warmest

Alan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cathie Pearce" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Trouble with Giants


>A Deleuzian at heart I think from the sounds of it!
>
>>>> "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]> 08/17/08 5:23 PM >>>
> Dear Cathie,
>
> That's good to hear!
>
> I also had the response below from Prof Harvey Sarles (University of
> Minnesota), via the inclusional research list.
>
>
> Warmest
>
> Alan
>
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> On Scholars
>
> Scholars study what other people say. And I want to know what is.
> What difference, I ask, who says what, except that they say what is?
> Sitting in their rooms and offices studying, they gather a kind of
> knowledge which is drawn painstakingly into the tomes of their lives.
> And I, occasionally curious, stick my nose into their tomes, but
> smell the dankness of living tombs. What, I ask, is this about?
> Refining definitions, teasing out nuances, they seem to be the
> children their parents would tolerate best, rather than those who see
> through the mantle of their authority. They teach great men. Do they
> teach great thinking? What there is? Principally these scholars talk
> to one another, tell themselves who they are and what they claim they
> know. Some write well: a cleverly turned phrase, turn some into has-
> beens, some into the framers of the fields in which they practice.
> Some borrow notions from other times, other arenas, other places, and
> turn a style of power into a center of what's new and what is
> selling. Worrying, I am, because I do not know the details of
> scholasticism; because I do not worship at the proper shrines, I try
> to watch the world; never knowing whether I am sheep or shepherd.  If
> I were a scholar I would have to deny it...especially to my self.
>
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cathie Pearce" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Trouble with Giants
>
>
>> Dear Alan
>>
>> thank you again!  you write some brilliant stuff and uncannily timely
> as
>> well!  thank you, its important and very much appreciated...
>>
>> Cathie
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> "Alan Rayner (BU)" <[log in to unmask]> 08/16/08 8:39 AM >>>
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>>
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Hope the attached might tickle.
>>
>>
>> Warmest
>>
>> Alan
>>
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