On the one hand:
Oppression & Dominance
by this & by that: choose your
direct objects. split infinitives,
dangling elements explanatory
principles, interpretations &
reasons why, because & affects,
blamations & escape goats
The Other Environmentalism
how lovely
it is, this thing
we have done
Together.
Toni Morrison’s final
words from her Nobel
Prize Lecture.
"The surroundings are always the lesson,
That's the trouble with college: what it
teaches more than anything else is how
to go to college.... Nobody can teach
how you in particular are going to behave
when you are alone for hours a day over
long periods of time trying to deal with
unknown quantities: what you have to
express, what experience your expression
draws on, how that experience relates to
the solitude necessary for its expression,
the form in which it comes out (which is
never quite the form you planned on),
how that form changes as it progresses
and most important, who you are--all
these are just are just a few of the
unknown qualities that are locked up
with you in your room. "
Michael Ventura "The Talent of the Room"
http://www.michaelventura.org/writings/LA4.pdf
(The Beauty Part: any one can hit reply-to-all and
some kind of local phenomenology & environ
mentalism might emerge: how lovely, this thing
that we do together.)
xxxooo, Presbyter
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