Schops never been too rah-rah about parturition, though to be fair I don’t know if that still holds. In any case, I’ve solved the problem. After decad...
For sure. I think you can keep the baby of these stories while throwing out the bathwater : just because they're human impositions doesn't mean they'r...
Was going to respond in more depth to you, never did; the @"Kenosha Kid" beat me to it. What he said! (I think we're largely in agreement, ourselves, ...
Oh, I was just saying that this: seemed to be an example of a whole->rupture-> frame, specifically the whole->rupture->return one. In terms of applyin...
Watched the video (mistook you to be describing a video of DFW talking about simpsons, seinfeld, office etc.) & yeah definitely very close to what I w...
Perhaps another day one will want to review all this For today it looks compressed like lines packed together In one of those pictures you reflect wit...
To quote IJ (sort of), I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? I'ma respond, just too late for me to dig in tonight. Hit you back during my work-from-...
Double eye-roll & I'll venmo you a 20-spot if you can find & link a vid matches that description. You sure? (The closest dfw thing I can think is his ...
Building on that: The Simpsons is removed, detatched : it's a vessel for writerly jokes imposed from without, that use the sitcom format as a canvas-s...
What with skyscrapers and dirigibles and balloons the sky seems pretty crowded And a nice place to live at least I think so do you And the songs strik...
Something in me was damaged I don't know how or by what Today is suddenly broad and a whole era of uncertainties is ending Like World War I or the twe...
I think it was David Lynch who compared his process to fishing - & I think that aligns nicely with what you’ve described. The source is a mystery even...
Apologies, I got a bit prickly, it’s a little silly, in retrospect, to post on a philosophy forum about something, and then object to it generating ph...
I write you to air these few thoughts feelings you are Most likely driving around the city in your little car Breathing in the exquisite air of the ci...
I think, for 'middle class' folk, a lot of it comes down to having shared bread and a shared butterer. If you're around people whose fashion (body lan...
Nathan the Wise is a good title it's a reintroduction Of heavy seeds attached by toggle switch to long loops leading Out of literature and life into w...
One horse stands out irregularly against The land over there. And am I receiving This vision? Is it mine, or do I already owe it For other visions, un...
Sure, but you could explain how a Burrough's cut-up sentence was produced, while you couldn't explain how the AI poem was produced. What is the point ...
I think these poems don't hold up to poems by great poets, and I am sure I can break down why -- but I didn't think I needed to bring that up, because...
They produced what they produced. I think it’s good. I also think any randomly chosen Emily Dickinson poem is probably better. But this is easy to do:...
They produce what they produce. They don't produce sausages, naturally. But the whole robot/soul thing is realllllly throwing us off the scent. The wh...
It's fair enough. T.S. Eliot, somewhere or another, talked about living with the suspicion one is incapable of loving. Then: Prufrock. & then, Phillip...
ty for that, I was following off and on when the thread was current, but fell off out of laziness. I’m reading now but it’s not my wheelhouse so it’ll...
I know very little about economics, been reading this & the OP was just kind of rambling, reflecting on that. Emphasizing again that I have no idea wh...
I feel as though someone had made me a vest Which I was wearing out of doors into the countryside Out of loyalty to the person, although There is no o...
I understand, I grew up around many veterans of the counter-cultural 60s. And, with some (not all) I often got the sense that the antagonism was being...
Or, to take another example: last month I vowed to write more. What is writing? Well, in my case, it's getting down on paper Not thoughts, exactly, bu...
Some things we do take up a lot more time And are considered a fruitful, natural thing to do. I am coming out of one way to behave Into a plowed cornf...
Nodding a curt greeting: "Well, you've been awhile But now we're back together, which is what counts." Air in my path, you could shorten this, But the...
That keeps me from walking up certain steps, Knocking at certain doors, fear of growing old Alone, and of finding no one at the evening end Of the pat...
I think those are really good questions. I’ve felt some similar discomfort. One potential, positive, way of framing that comes to mind is : it helps u...
A few choice Poulenc notes....Yes, It is being free again, the air, it has to keep coming back Because that's all it's good for. I want to stay with i...
And the air pours in with piano notes In its skirts, as though to say, "Look, John, I've brought these and these" - that is, A few Beethovens, some Br...
death and dying is scary: that’s the main reason people fear death. Have you seen someone die? It’s not usually a neat fade-to-black. It is itself a t...
@"fdrake" as promised Some of this is a bit over my head, (or at least, it's just specialized enough that, given what I'm bringing to it, the opportun...
Oh yeah, I did see your power-analysis above and it makes a lot of sense to me. Riffing on that: When 'science' is pilfered for a deck of 'science-aga...
I think so. A lot of this kind of talking ('metaphysical') reminds me of amping yourself up: like looking in the mirror before a date, or bragging bef...
Yeah, it’s crazy how much it learned. And what’s also crazy is gpt-3 is out, but, from what I understand, it’s not available to the public. This is al...
@"Noble Dust" I agree that this isn’t poetry per se, but it’s still beautiful at times. I think ‘genuine’ poetry is often something like the smoke gen...
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