>"Carrol brought up the Paris Commune. Rimbaud was a participant and
>wrote something non-sophomoric about it when he was 17, so it's not a given. "
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>Oh great, now we're comparing with Rimbaud. That's ridiculous.
You're right. That would be ridiculous. I'm glad that's not what I did.
I was responding to your claim that we should expect something written by a college age student to be sophomoric. I said it ain't necessarily so. There are a thousand other examples I could have used but Rimbaud was the first to come to mind.
Assuming that college writing would be sophomoric is an interesting comment on the American tradition of college as an extension of adolescence though. I think that was one focus in the French Theory book Chuck Grimes is reading. Maybe he can chime in.
>I was not scandalized by the Berkeley screed
Me either. Somebody said it was whiny and somebody else said at least it's poetic. I said as far as poetic goes, it ain't all that.
>I once saw a man get up at a SUN micro company meeting of hundreds
>of people and, rather incoherently, tell the CEO (Ed Zander) at the
>time to fuck off. It really was incoherent, but it caught the spirit
>in the room, he was loudly applauded,
Was it as good as this from Joey Ramone?
"I fucking never voted in my fucking life but I'm fucking voting for fucking Jerry Brown, man."
Now that's poetry.
(via Doug, who was there: http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2007/2007-November/022726.html )