Chris wrote: [PHILOSOPOETRY] simply puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything. - Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain. ____ Could it be that philosophy gets its form from thought, and poetry gets its thought from form? If this seems pointlessly aphoristic, consider Joseph Brodsky's comment that for a poet, "phonetics is semantics." Eager to read Chris on the negative dialectic of philosophy and poetry. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html