File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9902, message 222


Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:27:50 -0800
From: Don Socha <347hqx7-AT-cmich.edu>
Subject: Re: race... (fwd)





> >At the same time I distrust the ability of
> >words to do the job adequately.
>
> What else is there, Don Soncha? Paint? Granite? Marble? Steel? Affection? Touch?

I'll go with affect before relying on the more material or material oriented media
you mention.


> Words are inadequate but they are the best that we have. I truly cannot
> imagine a better tool. How else could I reach you? How else could I impart
> anything?

While you might think you reach me via logos, how can you say that your utilization
of a mere conduit indicates anything truly reflective of yourself?  As for what you
might impart, what I take away depends quite often as much on what you say as on how
I perceive it.  It is important that I am flexible and selective in my
interpretations, wouldn't you agree?  From my side, you can be nothing more nor less
than what I allow.  My reading is quite different than that of a Dan Edmonds, for
example.


> >It's like the guy said about t.v., what provides
> >more information, 91 channels of cable tv, or a weekend in the woods?
>
> I prefer the weekend in the woods but it depends on the kind of information
> you want.

What kind do you want?  The woods are slower.  You like information that arrives
more gradually?  Why?  Because it allows you to be more flexible?  Your
interpretative abilities betray admirable flexibility.  To my mind, this is what
marks you as a writer.  In certain ways you are the most flexible, most wide ranging
writer I've ever exchanged posts with.  I'm intrigued by what snares your
eloquence.  Are there particular topics you have more practice in addressing?  Do
you practice writing at regular intervals?  When did you start?  What might have
been the cause?


> >On the other
> >hand, which 'communicates' more?  Often communication is nothing more than
> a >relay
> >of stale perspectives.
>
> Well, if you want to consider such relay of stale perspective to be
> communication. I consider communication to be startling news.

Can you recommend a source or three?


> I gave it a decent effort. I do not consider that I succeeded. In future
> months, I may succeed. That is my hope. Such things take time.

When will you know?

Socha


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