In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, michell <pre- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > 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.
At what historical moment was anything of the kind first thought? It doesn't match anything I have read in classical or other pre-modern authors; it seems to me a product of the socio-economic alienation of the intellectual. (Only an intellectual could envisage the redesign of reality; only an alienated one would be interested in so doing. But of course we first have to define reality; and 'real', like 'free', is one of those words most easily understood from their opposites in any given context.) > 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, Being neither a poet nor a psychologist, no; I can only observe, > or will this put the list off terribly? Probably, but I can't anyway. Leofranc Holford-Strevens *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Leofranc Holford-Strevens 67 St Bernard's Road usque adeone Oxford scire MEVM nihil est, nisi ME scire hoc sciat alter? OX2 6EJ tel. +44 (0)1865 552808(home)/267865(work) fax +44 (0)1865 512237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
