[New-Poetry] Cormac McCarthy

[Skip Fox]

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Skip Fox
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Respectfully, 

 

Derrida's box might be as limiting as many, just in a variant way. The
correct way of looking at language is that it subverts itself, unsaying or
contradicting what it seems to say. Very brilliant thinking and reading
follow. (But that's only one way of thinking And some people put in at the
blind end of a dead-end epistemological dead end/alley that began with
Descartes. Don Byrd is the best example I know, believing that postmodernism
is different in kind than modernism, which extended philosophically from
Descartes' emphasis on epistemology. )

 

Anyway, I agree though do not pretend to understand all of the arguments.
But at least as a radical intuitionalist (my label?), I intuitively know
there are viable ways of thinking and being other than intuitively. 

 

And, of course, there's another side. Bob might ask me what is there to see
out of the box if there is not another box to provide reference for seeing.
I don't know what I'd reply.

 

skip

 

 

 

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[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Anny Ballardini
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:01 PM
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Reading _The Road_ this morning I thought that one interesting way of
looking at McCarthy is as though he is at continual war with romanticism. I
mean, I think he's a romantic (as I am)  but realizes in his work how hard
that is to maintain. (Loving the novel by the way. In this dystopia the
scene of regeneration, usually romantically reserved for nature and natural
processes as in The Call of the Wild or "Big Two-Hearted River," occurs in a
discovered fall-out shelter, one of the most unnatural of all places.) Like
Frost's woods "lovely, dark, and deep."

 

 

 

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