Wednesday, November 19, 2003
POST-MODERNISM--a venue of extremes (a teaching tool)
Apropos, is the modern style of linguistic luminism which, in case you haven't heard of it, aims to shed light on the traditions of an earlier era and establish some high relief by extending them to postmodern extremes. Here, let me give you an example from "The Lost Boy" by William Blake: Father,...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2003
JOURNALLING! A LOST ART???
Taken like a subway ticket, I stare in abject silence at my dinner. The thaw has come off of the microwaved meal, and it sticks there like limp lasagna in my craw. When is a journal like that meal? When its writer limps along like a lame hare teasing some poor tortoise to death with his...
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