Re: "Excellent"

--- Omlor@aol.com wrote:

john, out of further curiosity, which poets are you
passionate about?

(and thanks for replying regarding 'that bastard
Rilke'.

kim

>
> I don't think I have a take on Rilke. I have always
> gotten a certain amount
> (of pleasure, of thought, of experience, of style)
> out of his stuff; but I
> have never become passionate about it and I've never
> taught it. I like his work.
> But I don't know his work well enough to say
> anything too intelligent about
> it. He is, to paraphrase an old comic routine, a
> poet who makes me go "hmmmm."
>
> As far as I know, we now have all of the available
> Kafka texts translated.
> This is not to say we have all the Kafka texts that
> exist, of course, since it
> is very possible that there are some which have not
> been made available or
> which remain lying undiscovered somewhere. I do
> know about the editing
> controversies (I have never been happy with the
> chapter ordering in the Trial and have
> been one of those who have argued that the execution
> scene is a mid-narrative
> dream sequence -- and I think the drawings support
> this.... etc.). But these
> are separate issues. Once I have the book,
> whichever book, in front of me --
> the bound pages -- that is what I am reading. And I
> do love those particular
> bound pages.
>
> It's early morning, and thanks to a preventative
> couple of pills before the
> drinking last night, I am wide awake and hangover
> free. The right meds are
> indeed a wonderful thing. :)
>
> Have a fine day, everyone,
>
> --John
>
>
>

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Received on Fri Jun 27 12:16:07 2003