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Article #60734Re: On Tragedy
From: yyyiii...@yahoo.
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:46
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:46
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"Dennis M. Hammes" <scraw...@arvig.net> wrote in message news:<3FB79F6F...@arvig.net>... > __________ wrote: > > > > > > > Rob, I understand what you are saying. > > > > However, there was no need to take a tragedy such as my father's death and > > stick it in my nose as well as my whole self-worth here. And why would Peter > > want to embarass me? For his own self indulgence? > > > > [__________] > > Listen carefully, illiterate. > now angel is illiterate too. welcome onboard! > (Yes, I just ensured that you /won't/. Solve /that/.) > who has the time for your rent? self-impotent old fart no /feelings/... > A "tragedy" is something that happens to a community, a /social/ > group related by language, and happens specifically to their > estimate (image, purpose) of themselves. > read yourself one more time... > Something that happens to one person cannot be a "tragedy" > /unless/ there was a /reasonable expectation/ that his image of > himself, his /purpose/ to the contrary of the event (a social > relation, i.e., potentially for all), could be met. This is > According to Pennis-Hams Dictionary. > recently called "Romantic Tragedy" despite that it's half the > 2500-year-old Greek and 3/4 of the thousand-year-old Japanese > literary tradition. > Historical chop suey. > Something that happens mechanically to every member of a species, > who owns mechanical lovers... > and more especially to every member of a chemical class, cannot > possibly be a "tragedy" in that there can be no /reasonable/ > expectation of avoiding it. > edmonton scientic porridge > N.B.: it is of interest that Greek tragedy seems always to involve a > cataclysm in man's relationship to law, Japanese tragedy a cataclysm > in his relationship to duty, both merely different approximations of > the same condition. > multiculturism muff > "Seems," because the cataclysmic "laws" and "duties" emerge always > to be strictly "human," even juvenile. Our own worship of the > juvenile has already produced several high tragedies, but the > juveniles so worshipped are utterly incompetent to write them. > self-fulfilling waste treatment facility - personal edition. to neutralize the ph of your stink, i must remind you a society that old put down the young and restrict the rights of the young is one that's regressive > N.N.B: I realise [perfectly] that certain True People with the True > Gift can simply snerml the noflnmeyer of the gnorthege, solnuffl > word soup. this seriously causes mental blocks to the writer. > their wings, and aslnugml *with* *feeling* Directly To *Heaven*, do > not pass Go, do not pay five Our Fathers and three Hail Mary's, but > pho of symbols. L1> it is to be understood that the method is not available /to the L2> social group/ at large, for they do not, themselves, have the True L3> Gift, nor can any methods provided by the True Gift be L4> /communicated/ to the linguistic group by pushing around clauses and L5> rhymes no matter how long they live. L0> let's read this one more time. the closing line must contain a thought, no? so he says the lines: L1: the "social group" doesn't have the "method" L2: because they have the true... L3: Gift, nor can any methods be L4: /communicated/ to a yinguistic froup by clauses and L5: rhtymes and no matter much younger we are. see with dennis's convolution, one has to resolve to simplicity. rewrite his lines into barebone stink. then you read it again. nothing is really in the soup. what make him sound funky was the culture chop suey and pho of symbols. ying
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