Rigor & Innovation: and can they
just get along? Need we argue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZW37WiyGWg&feature=related
Habit
Addiction.
Obsession
Compulsion
Attention Efficiency
(or Deficiency, depending
on where we draw the line),
while inimical to Time Management
& measurable objectives are never
the less prerequisite for making the
world a better place if not saving it..
Plus: that “damned moral sense”: outrage
galore across the universe no matter our
party affiliation: determination to explain,
interpret, show reason’s why, because &
affect, blame, escape goat & vote..
“He who gives himself entirely to his fellow-men
appears to them useless and selfish; but he who
gives himself partially to them is pronounced a
benefactor and philanthropist.”
(Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”)
Wallace Stevens regularly knocked out poetry
in his office sitting as vice president of
Accident and Indemnity Insurance, a suburban
legend in his own time and so might be
considered benefactor and poet.
Imagine, if he did nothing but poetry.
Or nothing but life insurance
A faux dichotomy? Can
anyone serve two
masters?
xxxooo, Sam
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