To American Literati (as well as
Transcendentals, Dialecticians,
and Colleagues Across the Curriculum)

For the sake of argument and
Courses Without Borders.

Here’s the problem.

IF you want to do some kind of “justice” to
the whole & holy …

(which, right from the start you
know is impossible)…

You’ve got to learn how to speak out of
both sides of your mouth at once.

(Actually 3 sides.)

You’ve got to be doing some justice

(which you can’t, I’ve already said that)

to the on-the-one-hand side

(call it the “thesis” : the the in thesis
means view and is the same the that is
in the word aesthetic and theatre so
we’re talking something like

LOOKY HERE: SEE!)

and then you’ve got to doing some justice

(ha!)

to the on-the-other-hand side on the other hand..

(call it anti-thesis—and know that anti- ness is
diametrically and dia-bolically opposed to thesis,
let me make that perfectly clear: hostile, like BB
Wolf and the 3 little pigs--Thesis and Antithesis
do NOT just get along no better than hot & cold,
art & science, fem and masc, know what I’m saying? )

That’s 2 sides of the mouth going on right there.
Thesis and Antithesis and you don’t want to be
slighting either, no preference, damnit: turn the 2
up and let them fight-club it OUT crying out loud
—ouch, ooo, blast-it, crap, umph, ahhh, yes, Yes
YES: that’s the way to do it.

THEN: anticipate a revelation. The 3^rd hand:
Invisible.

( ok I know I’m pushing he meta-force here:
go with me.)

…a felt sense of relationship between amoral
“enemies,” radically different & incommensurate:
as opposed as cold to hot, ice cream and hell

science and art
intellect and affect
masc and fem
etc.

Pick your favorite binary pair & dastardly dualism.

& soon you’ll be speaking out of 3 sides of your
mouth at once, too.

.
picture of the liberal artist as a young myn.

Don’t expect to be loved. Common Sense Folk
like you to speak out of only one side of your
mouth at once. And you can’t blame them
either. In "school" mode ,you might could get away
with it--but not in "church" & "state" modes.

Be discrete.