At 04:08 PM 6/4/2008, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>That's why there's poetry. (Not a joke.)
>
>Joanna
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>
> >
> > "It’s not that I’m in favor of difficulty for
> > difficulty’s sake; it’s that I think there is a
> > lot in ordinary language and in received grammar
> > that constrains our thinking indeed, about what
> > a person is, what a subject is, what sexuality
> > is, what politics can be and that I’m not sure
> > we’re going to be able to struggle effectively
> > against those constrains or work within them in a
> > productive way unless we see the ways in which
> > grammar is both producing and constraining
> our sense of what the world is."