SELFIE

               A new method of

              representation is a

              real event…a new

              method of description

              would involve us in

              a new world, a world

              of new problems

              and new solutions. (MCB)

        

The Poet Laureate of Dullville lulled  to sleep on the

 lap of the Goddess of  Dullness. During  his  slumber,

he sees  a vision: past, present,  & future triumphs

of the Empire. Finally, Goddess,  having  destroyed

order & science, establishes her kingdom on a firm

basis, gives direction to her various agents to prevent

thought and keep people to foolish  and trifling pursuits

and Night & Chaos are restored and  the poem ends.

[from  Wm Rose Benet’s  synopsis of  Alexander Pope’s

(and then  Colley  Cibby’s 18^th  re- configuration of)

                          The Dunciad. ]

Like Big Boy having to be funny for 7^th  graders just to

get by —beat them  to the punch lines so to speak,

parade fat folly like virtue,  laughs instead  of wedgies;

me:  stupido among smarties,  dunciad  dancing with

the doctorate, sustaining a  jiggle dance juggling  jocularity

sure it’ll break ice  at last: butt crack the universe so as to

re-create joy of  learning & never stop the  yearning  for

attention all around.

(We have an urgent need to develop new patterns

of thought and to find  ways to teach these new

patterns which would represent a profound change

in understanding rather than the superficial additions

of new slogans. (Mary Catherine Bateson: Our Own

Metaphor.)