[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:15:53 -0800
On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:26 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
>>Aren't the facts of the matter that very few Americans will ever
read Milton and that Milton's world and language are slipping
beyond the same sort of
horizon that now separates most of us from Beowulf, the Canterbury
Tales, even a lot of Shakespeare?
Milton, schmilton.
Sitting in my severalth thesis proposal today, drifting into dark
thoughts of slaughter, I came to my senses 'mid burble about Rilk,
who was a German poet. "Got Rilk?" I asked myself, as one does when
coming to. I blinked and scanned for further information about my
environment. It turns out that we live in a symbolic exchange
culture. I thought I might mention this next time I was in Safeway.
"Do you take symbols?"
"No," I imagine them saying, "we only take money."
The most annoying thing about having thoughts in an interior
monologue is you miss the exterior links; the next thing I heard
was, "like Lacan and the mirror-stage." I have no idea what was
appearing on the mirror stage, or who the featured star was.
Liberace perhaps? Did he ever appear with Lacan?
As I was pondering further, a colleague asked, "Is this kind of
sexual dimorphism always operational in some kind of way?"
"Boy," I thought, "or girl. That's a tough one. I should probably e
mail Mr. Bachelard. He'll know."
I think the point of one presentation was that a person's childhood
might make good material for contemporary art, beginning somehow with
collage and possibly ending with soft sculpture of some sort, which
probably involves sewing. And I recall someone was going to
"intervene" while "referencing" Banksy and a fellow in Malaysia. One
bit I carefully noted: "I want to make art," someone said, because
"I'm constipated with information and have to let it out."
Now there's an outcome someone will have to assess with considerable
caution.
David Ritchie,
c/o Social Practice Vista,
Aisle Twelve, OR
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