Comments | them_apples: Curtis White, i am quit of thee

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Curtis White, i am quit of thee

Dec 01, 2005 22:02

david berman, amazing poet and personal hero of mine, mentions in this interview that the future of poetry, and indeed the current status of poetry lies in shambles because it has fallen into the hands of nerds. nerds like wallace stevens, nerds like well... whoever teaches poetry workshops at your local college. essentially, his feeling (which i ( Read more... )

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them_apples December 2 2005, 20:26:59 UTC

what a stirring review, andy. you must have really put some thought into this.

them_apples December 2 2005, 20:27:52 UTC

i did, actually. and i feel quite passionately about the subject. you know, it's positive feedback from readers like you that makes me remember why i do this in the first place.

Nice benbazooka December 3 2005, 23:41:41 UTC

I was thinking about the scene in the invisible man (with chevey chase, though im sure there are other, quite similar scenes in similar movies) anyway, chevey is invisible, but it rains on him, and then you can see him. I think all those dicks in the face, are like rain drops, they only help to define something with substance.

also, perhaps mass consumerism is just part and parcel to a homeorhetic human value system? what did i just say

Ben

Re: Nice them_apples December 4 2005, 03:40:09 UTC

oh, you know very well what you just said. and you're right. as far as i'm concerned. i don't know which spawned which, but it's a very useful litmus test for identifying oneself. or with other humans. identifying with them. and maybe we have given up something in the process. but we must have gained something, too. there's a law of either physics or thermodynamics i'd like to quote here, but i don't remember what it is or what exactly it says. you'd know better than i would. the amount of matter in the universe is a constant. i'm going to contest that it applies to spiritual and socio-whatever matter as well.

i really wish more philosophers were scientists. man, those were the days.

more, benbazooka December 4 2005, 06:37:10 UTC

what would white think of this
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

not to mention if you actually google miserable failure, you get bush 1st and Michael Moore second, im sure that has meaning (not the order, just the presence of the names)

to be sure, its a neat bit of trivia

them_apples December 6 2005, 16:19:28 UTC

well, meaning in the sense that people are bitterly divided over issues they only vaguely understand.

and i think the google thing is only really indicative of the fact that more liberals are computer-literate. not the most surprising statistic in the world, really. most red states don't even have 'lectricity, and are rabidly suspicious of booklearnin'.

is that an unfair portrayal? you bet it is! but they're powerless to fight back! they don't even own computers!