[New-Poetry] From My Blog Something Barry Probably Won't Like

[Bob Grumman]

Michael Snider wrote:
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> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net 
> <mailto:bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>> wrote:
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>     I'm not sure I don't intend the weird, Mike.  Everything
>     intelligent starts out seeming weird to others.  Which doesn't
>     mean that everything starting out weird is intelligent.  Anyway, I
>     conclude that the clang of what I said has not found resolution in
>     your mind.
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>     --Bob
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> Bob, I sincerely hope you never intended the weird I was talking about.
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> Richard Feynman, who got the Nobel for his work in quantum 
> chromodynamics once said that the day Einstein's 1905 paper on 
> relativity came out, everyone who could read it understood it and 
>  knewi it was right. On the other hand, he said, no one will ever 
> understand quantum mechanics, but it was demonstrably true because the 
> calculations work. (But then, Einstein never accepted it, saying 
> something deeper and importantly, simpler, underlay it.)
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> So no, the new is not inevitably weird -- and is usually, in fact a 
> sign that something is wrong with some part of one's understanding,
The new always seems weird according to my psychology.  It is something 
you have to adjust to.  The really weird may be something else, although 
I can't say that anything at all seems weird to me, once I've thought 
about it.  Other than the simple fact that we exist.

I agree that the new is a sign that something is--I'd say, "was"--wrong 
with one's understanding.  It's an attempt to improve.  If everything's 
perfect, we don't need it.
> and with poems there aren't any calculations to work or not.
I think you fumbled your syntax or something here.  Except that our 
authority on syntax hasn't pointed it out yet.  I suppose you're just 
stating your boilerplate that poems somehow transcend explanation in a 
way that automobiles don't, which is where you and I have to agree to 
disagree.

> And no, I'm not a fan of clang. I am a fan of Lighght, even if I'm not 
> sure it's a poem. I'm no essentialist, but neither am I Humpty Dumpty
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> -Mike.
Dunno what an essentialist is.  If lighght is not a poem, what is it?

--Bob
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