The need is psychological; even a bad review is >better than none.
But that's just mentioning a delight in any form of progress, as long as anything is happening. A med-student might cut his finger in dissection, but this is not so bad. Language. Its not a social drive, its not a drive to be social, but to get rid of sociality, to resignify reality. Praise or harrassment, the poet at least feels it is getting somewhere, perhaps, would the poet recieve nothing, no bad nor good review, the poet would be content. But no one ever gives the poet nothing. They either ignore the poet, praise it, or harrass it. Its always something deliberate. Perhaps the poet just wants people to stop deliberating? Something to do with language. Can you describe the psychological need, or will this put the list off terribly? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
