“For
those not in love,
there’s law: to
rule, to
regulate, to rectify.”
(Wm Gass)
I pretend you are all
in love with
literature,having your way with
it,
messing with metaphors, snuffling
up hidden
assumptions, teasing
and tweaking
definitions, arguing
over signs and symbols ,
meanings
and understandings,wrestling with
god,
cerebral and affective fight club,
cherishing play of minding and
critical thinking.
Getting smart and
smarter and a good time had
by all.
It’s what motivates
you to get up for
dillar-a-dollar 8:00 scholarship.
Your
love is why law, rule,regulation,
rectification are such diminished
motivational
notions-- Imagine: doing
it outof force—or else!
What kind of
motive would that be?I’d have to be
chastening and scolding and correcting,
grading like anything.
Would take the
glow off --postpone the joy.
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