Re: Kafka and rilke and Perplexity State University

"posts are neither prose nor poetry. (the muse doesn't
figure in this realm.)

they're akin to dashed-off notes. they're not even
worthy of the term 'letter'.

and fie on tim for archiving them!

kim"

I wasn't aware these were archived, so I should have read the welcome e-mail less hastily. Yes, fie indeed. These posts should not be archived.

But how can you say that "the muse doesn't figure into this realm?" If that's a standard you've created for yourself, okay. But to deny those who would struggle against the ineffectiveness of language to create something beautiful - ideas, images, arguments - even on an e-mail list...

The distinction between prose/poetry is likely just as arbitrary as the distinction between prosaic and poetic language. You've made this distinction between e-mail lists and literature, but that's your own boundary to establish, and I would argue that powerful images and arguments, transcending the limitations of the words themselves, can be found in the language of e-mail posts just as easily as in a book. What about Seymour's Fat Lady, and Zooey's interpretation of it? The "aesthetic experience" is everywhere we choose to look for it.

luke

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