Loving the Enemy

Courses Without Borders Series
(analogies across the curriculum?)

From The Last Fiction Class

X) When you write:
always have your
audience in mind!

Z) When you write, forget
about your audience:
hell with em .

Thesis & antithesis, yes?
Protagonism &Antagonism.
Devil and Deep Blue See.
Rock & a Hard Face.

Indeterminacy:
position
or
velocity,
which?

Niels Bohr says,
the opposite of a
profound truth is
another profound truth.


x) I want to impress you when I write.
SEE ME HEAR ME TOUCH ME
FEED ME.

z) I don’t care if you like it or don’t like it:
heck with you; this is what I got to say:
do you see what I see?

THE ELEPHANT IS VERY
LIKE A TREE!

What’s the name/term/image for the
Y FACTOR here? That standpoint of
viewing (like temperature to hot&cold )
which turns up the opposition, puts it
in play—and lets neither team (X or Z)
dominate, damnit.

“Do I contradict myself?” says Whitman.
“I am large, I contain multitudes.”

On the surface, this may seem
to be about writing, but it’s not.

Yrs in DIALECTICAL PLAY
(got to love the “enemy”
—bring it on: the opposition)

(“DIALECTICAL” is the word Plato
used to describe how the philosopher
got out of his cave. How he got back in
and managed to sustain himself—like
a one-eyed man in the valley of the
blind—wasn’t part of the metaphor,:
a course of another color: diabolical,
or metabolical )

xxxooo, Sam