Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:15:16 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: New Year's Kiss


>Allen quoted Kenneth and wrote:
>
>K:
>>>  seems to me, despite the overwhelm of any contrare', that no man's
>>>  fate is in his own hands, even, and despite, when it always seems to
>>>  be there
>
>
>A:
>>  Of course, the fact that it seems to be is no proof that it isn't either.
>>  So much depends on mood.
>
>
>Sometimes I think that whether one is 'fated' well or ill or otherwise
>depends on what 'river' one walks in and 'submits' to in its everloving
>watery caress (or Allenian kiss); and one has to walk/swim/drown in some
>river even if one remains on the bank (the bank is just a dry slow-moving
>river); just a question of what grip one 'chooses' (or rather, does not
>re-sist, re-fuse) to be in the grip of, because we are al-ways al-ready in
>the grip...
>
>Lost in (water) music.
>
>michaelP
>

Ah, to be in the grip!  Nothing like it for getting the old factical 
movement moving.
Of course you're right Michael.  We are always already. . .
But being in the mood to enjoy it-
Even for it to find you.
Now that's something else, altogether.
Over which we have little if any control.

Oh, when love finds me,
let me be there!

But if not . . .

Allen (singing again with Leonard Cohen:

"I fought against the bottle,
but I had to to do it drunk!"


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