RE: Kafka and rile and Perplexity State University

John O. swimming in his sea of uncertainty, the ultimate camouflage and the
last defense. When one has been backed into that last bit of floor space in
the corner, a leap to the ceiling. But this only escapes those ' vs..' that
don't inhabit the space fully from floor to ceiling. 'You can't nail me
down' implies that the nailing is done to you. The dimpled ball falls into
the cup with that satisfying 'whlop', it certainly did.
 
'Don't answer'?, certainly a poem and a song are not the same things but at
times they can be, ok but events have place; so what is their place John O.?
And can two events occupy the same time and space? I have come to KNOW that
not all poems are songs and not all songs are poems but some are. I also
know that I can sing in my mind when I read and read with my voice but Tom
Waits can call whatever he wants whatever he wants but he is never certain
and it seems neither are you.
 
So when is prose not a poem?
 
Daniel

 
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 Mon Jun 30 11:16:42 2003