Re: Kafka and rilke and Perplexity State University

Daniel writes:

"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."

and later he also writes:

"If it is in the nature of the rattler to wiggle his tail to warn a would be
step, it is in my nature to raise my heel (or shovel) to strike the fangs from
the body.  Coil or flee because 'Don't tread on me' has never stayed my heel."

Daniel,

If at times I do not respond to you, please be assured that it is only
because I have no idea at all what the hell you are talking about.

Jim, I stand by the sentence I wrote and that Kim cited about poetry being an
event. Remember, it was written within the context of citing an essay. Also,
I'm not at all sure that your bodysurfing experiences and, I hope, the sexual
experiences you mention, weren't poetic.

Finally, at this point, I would only ask that people read the 1988 essay "Che
cos'è la poesia?", printed in both Italian and English in *A Derrida Reader:
Between the Blinds,* edited by Peggy Kamuf, Columbia Univ. Press, 1991, pp.
221-237.

And remember, also, that the question 'What is...?' "laments the
disappearance of the poem -- another catastrophe. By announcing that which is just as it
is, such a question salutes the birth of prose."

For the record, I'm still not sure that these distinctions matter in any real
way.

All the best,

--John

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