Not by Breadth Alone Again (You got a problem with Liberal Art?)

Dear Humans & colleagues across the curriculum. .

Nature loves redundancy even if Eng&Comp
teachers do not.

Keep IT in play: I say.  I say it a lot because I
find being in-play (ludic: in-game)  more generative,
more creative, more stochastic, more  conducive to
emergent phenomena and values, more innovative
& inventive, more likely to hit  the edges, the borders,
frontiers yet unknown  then being out of it (deludic,
illusional: not in play.)

Seriously. No fun gardening in tuxedos.  

Fooling around with ideas until  someone bumps
his head, skins  her knee, gets shoved too rough
and then—for some  reason—no longer PLAY.

School & Be Schooled. Play & Be Played.
(Composed & Be Composed)

Boundaries.crossed. Borderlines violated.

Might skin my knee—or worse: some one else’s
THAT’s why I don’t jump on the log, so to
speak.. Don’t rattle the animal cage. 

Unless I can FRAME IT as PLAY,
and KEEP IT  in play.

In play it  don’t matter: bump, scrape, mild
noetic concussion  We’re playing Liberal art
here, you got a  problem with that?
 
Imagine: a game that can't  even start until
someone gets hurt (so to speak)--cerebrally
if not affectively (not talking sticks & stones
here). A  violation--a conceptual  rupture 
You just pissed me off,  confused me,
contradicted yrself,  reduced a complicated
issue,  complicated a reduced issue, ripped IT
out of context, missed my point, 

Now we’re at the edge: frontier-land, borders
exposed, vulnerable: who’s jumping on the logs
now? Loving the the enemy. Dare you. Double
Dare. Triple Dog Dare.

Look: Mercaria was log-rolling on the Swannanoa
right in this 8 am  classroom —spinning & spinning
—lost in the roll, letting go, conjuring up the animal,
the chaos, the anxiety and the so-what—
you got a problem with that? 

Max, too: rolling the log, keeping it spinning.
Don’t tell me they were “thinking” while rolling.
It’s unconscious process going on when we’re
in-game, IN Converse-Action. Wild. Unpredictable.
Improv.  Unscripted. Getting better and good at it.

You don't actually have to go to the river.
The play's at hand. Always. Roll the logos.

Liberal art. You got a problem with liberal art?
How would I know if you didn't tell me? We can
argue.  Or what's a college for?

xxxooo, Sam