----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 6:33 AM Subject: Re: I'm a frog, you're a princess...
> At 09:20 AM 2/16/02 -0500, Gordon Fitch wrote:
>
> >But people often sing about what they lack. That's why
> >there are so many songs above love.
> >
> >-- Gordon
>
>
> i suppose, but as a non-poet, the only time i've been motivated to "sing"
> poetry have been when i'm in love--and once when i was quite angry with
> someone. 'sides, if you take any of the pomos seriously, it ought to be wrt
> one issue: the self...a couple...an affinity group...a community...all
> founded on lack.
>
> conscious self-reflection--awareness of the self and of others--is made
> possible in the same way a mirror can reflect: there is a silvering, a
> foil, that we can never get behind. as such, there is a lack, something we
> cannot capture for it forever slips out of our grasp--slip sliding along
> the signifying chain.
>
>
> kelley
>
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"To stay young, To save the world, Break the mirror."
Nanao Sakaki