[lit-ideas] Re: Milton translated (as prose?)
- From: "John McCreery" <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 15:42:33 +0900
LOL!
P.S. Don't blame Eric for what I wrote.
John
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:15 PM, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> 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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