[lit-ideas] 'P' For Poetry Month (13th)
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:37:08 +0200
'P' For Poetry Month (13th)
- A Word or Two =85
For P makes nothing happen: it survives
in the valley of its making
P may in no way interfere with the actual
it can in the end only describe it.
It leaves everything as it is.
It is the business of P,
not to resolve a contradiction by means of a
discovery, but to make it possible for us
to get a clear view of the state
that troubles us; the state of affairs
*before* the contradiction is resolved.
(And this does not mean
that one is sidestepping a difficulty.)
P simply puts everything before us,
and neither explains nor deduces anything.
- Since everything lies open to view
there is nothing to explain.
If one were to advance *theses* in P,
it would never be possible to to debate them,
because everybody would agree to them.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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