The Critic Frank O'Hara
Etymological Fallacy
The group most at risk for falling prey to the etymological fallacy are poets. It’s easy to see why. Poetry begins with an a priori fallacy, the proposition that words have magical powers.
Hey, I enjoy chanting around a fire and spinning in circles as much as the next freak. But the things we chant, albethey magical, are not words. Words are those things we use in everyday life to navigate our personal narratives, to build shared-realities, and to negotiate the concrete.
They’re not magic, they’re a tool. A tool we picked or happened across. A tool that allows us to explore the unknown, to catch a glimpse of the magical, but not magic in themselves.
If you rely on your audience knowing the ancient magical ember at the root of a word, we’re gonna have a bad time.
State of the Community on the overthinking of midbrow ideas
What I’m beginning WINK WINK to suspect is
Poets have a different emotional gamut than mostpeople.
Not necessary broader,
Mind, just different.
But speaking of mind…
They do tend to think themself intellectual
And that’s where it nags
Wiving Live at Rubber Gloves
I missed this show due to sickness and brokeness, sigh.
I bet it rocked, they always do.
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Days and days
Wondering why wordpress.com reader hasn’t updated my feed in 3 days.