Textual, Contexual &
Consensual Relations
among Faculties
“I think he has seen,
as no other in our time,
how inexhaustible a mine
is the language of Conversation.”
Emerson on Carlyle
“Professor F______ brought up the idea
of opening the SocSci blog to the faculty
to read--but only those in his division can
make posts or comments.
I like that idea as opposed to a completely
closed conversation, but I wonder what
others may think. Hello?” (‘Fesser P____.)
We understand nothing; our ignorance is abysmal,
the over-hanging immensity staggers us, whither
we go, what we do, who we are, we cannot even
so much as guess. We stagger and grope.
Why would I or faculty-at-large (committee of whole)
want to read stuff we weren’t allowed to respond to?
Comment on? Take issue with? Put in play?
What’s the point? To take notes?
Like listening to someone lecture
who insists no no no questions—
please. Let me finish.
“Yes, Yes, that’s a conversation we need
to have--but notnow.”
Man is insular and cannot be touched.
Every man is an infinitely repellent orb,
and holds his individual being on that
condition.
Seal IT off completely—the cross-disciplinary
fertilization-bounce-of-analogy-begging-to-
differentiate-draw-distinctions-merely-for-
the-sake-of-argument-&-anecdote-&-
local-food for thought going on
inside the new Jensensual
Relations and FAH!
blogs…
Or let it hang out.
Kick the can.
IT’s the difference between
laissez-fair & lasso fair, between
upside down flamingo & hedgehog
croquet and the hard balls & mallets
kind. Chose your magistery.
“A believer in Unity,
a seer of Unity,
I yet behold two…
Cannot I conceive
the Universe without
a contradiction?”
xxxooo, R.Waldo Emerson
Dear Graham,
ReplyDeleteForgive me my glib:
Looking back on the title of that
last post in FAH! I can see how
it might irritate (this is my second apology to you).
The notion of "I'll keep trying"--
perfectly decent statement of intent. Effort. Works.
I was trying for years and years and decided the word generated it's own problems--success and failure notions.
I still keep trying (think I can think I can)because it's almost impossible not to think that way.
But when I'm "on stage," or "directing," or picking banjo or piano: I'm just doing it. Lost in it. No sense of TRY. Or effort.
Frame of Mind on the one hand:
this & that on the other.
From the TRY side: I've failed all along with the very thing that the Blogs promise.
Yrs in political correct & incorrectness
xxxooo
Sam--
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, no need to apologize. It didn't occur to me to feel irritated or anything--well, since I didn't read your post till I got an automatic email with your comment/apology, I can't honestly say how I might have reacted--by I don't think I would have felt irritated or have had my delicate feelings hurt. Anyway: Let 'er rip! And I'll enjoy this dialogue until anyone else shows up...
In the meantime, let us resolve to attempt to be as trying as possible.
xxoo
Graham