INTER LUDE
To
Fictionists, Linguists,
Transcend
Dentalists
and Colleagues
Across
the
Curriculum. enin
As opposed to
prelude and
postlude—
before the
play and after
the play. an
interlude is
a pause
between acts and
actions. Ludic = play, game (Illudic,
illusion,
delusion = not
in play, out
of it.)
For you fully
to
appreciate my courses,
you must
realize what a proper
waste
of time they are—how
Not Rigorous &
easy compared to the OTHERS. the
surrounding
necessary demands,
text and
content
agenda-driven
ground-coverage
rubric
assessed and
measureable
objectives.
The values and
meaning of
Regular and
Regulation.
On the one
hand, let that upward
arrow represent
and stand for our dominant thrust—the arrow of
purpose. Getting some where.
A good thing
On the other
hand
(appropriately antithetical
and
antagonistic in
value):
Let that
represent and
stand for hap-y, un-fliltered
and
unagenda-ized HAP—what’s
actually happening
under the
cover-up of our
purposes, determinations,
plans,
expectations, ways
of talking. Chaos: source
of the new
and mother of
invention.
Polarize
these two images
and what they stand for:
their
radically different
and incommensurate values.
Don’t let
either reduce or
contaminate the other—
at least
conceptually: in
your own mind-set.
In real-time,
of course,
not only are they fused and
confused, but it’s clear which
dominates, which is
subordinate,
yes? Which rules the
roost, so to speak
and which is
sent to the
cellar or attic—banished
from kitchen
cupboards and
cupcakes.
The sound of
one hand
slapping.
So what?
So what I
ask. Seriously.
Whatever the
token
content, texts, catalogue
subject-matter:
this here
what I’m saying is
my course:
broken for
view.
An Environmentalism Liberal Art (I insist)
not to be
conflated with
the practical and
pragmatic
instrumental values of
the liberal
arts—those
majors and minors,
poster and
capstone
events.
Need we
argue? Of course.
We must.
Or what’s a
college for?
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