Re: kafka and rilke

Hi Tina,

I think the "vs." is the problem. I think, like so many analytic
distinctions, this one doesn't hold very well at all. In fact, it leaks like a sieve.
And I also suspect that poets know about the mess that remains and even come to
celebrate it even as many of the philosophers and analysts would seek to
clean it up (or at least to account precisely for the spillage).

It is, in another lifetime, one of the important differences between Genet,
(who is constantly spilling things, milk, semen, glue, juice, etc.) and Hegel
(who wants transubstantiation, for instance, to be complete, whole, without
remainders or crumbs, the same way he ultimately wants knowledge)....

And now they are thinking "what the hell is he talking about?!"

Sorry, it's all from another favorite book again. Never mind.

Your question does us a service. That's probably why it shouldn't be
answered.

All the best,

--John

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Received on Sun Jun 29 13:06:37 2003