Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Shored/spelt'




			shot off a shovel.

	out there

		fragment still implies that something is missing, when
indeed that is not the case.

	One is not missing anything. Even when you miss a person, you are
not fragmented thereby.what Was figure tothe ancient Greeks - as in the
Orphic limbs being scattered, becomes with Plato and the gang of logical
literalists who follow him a literal event.  A figure, as in a figure of
speech, is neither a logical or literal event. It is presents a mental and
physical state. That is what the ancient Greeks so exciting. Or the
middle age, they did not exist inside the foolish belief that the figure
was literal. Which  makes them, to this day, so attractive, so sexy. Blake
the poet seemed to inhabit this space...