Grateful, indeed, Max. somehow I’d managed to miss Frankl, but now I know…
Just been reading some essays suggesting clarity of writing is possible, even with bevy theory in the background (& I am as always then relating to Guy Davenport).
Have to agree with the crikey about creaturalness… huh?
Doug
On Oct 15, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Logotherapy
>
> Reading my wife’s textbooks -
> what a relief not to be tested
> on them! - browsing, thank you -
>
> no need to take notes - no
> underlining or post-it-ing -
> not even looking up
>
> hard words: logotherapy,
> thymopsychic, pathoplastic…
> creaturalness…crikey!
>
> is that like creatureliness?
> Oh, it may be useful.
> I’m listening for them
>
> on the beloved’s lips -
> untainted so far,
> but soon assignments
>
> may force them on her -
> words to write, not speak.
> Didn’t I when I taught
>
> have my special words
> paraded before students
> in hopes they’d emulate?
>
> ‘Contagion of the gown’?*
> mostly resisted. Now
> I’m reading Victor Frankl
>
> grateful for his passion,
> his faith in freedom,
> vocation, his lexicon.
>
> *S.Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes:
> Fever of Renown,
> Caught from the ftrong Contagion of the Gown ;
> O'er Bod/efs Dome his future Labours spread,
> And Bacons Manfion trembles o'er his Head.
Douglas Barbour
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