File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0305, message 18


Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 21:07:26 +1100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: Re: love and difference - feeling, reacting






> laughs - would like to think so - but really how can anyone respect
> inheritence like this...
>
> s
>
> hbone wrote:
>
> >Steve/Geof/All,
> >
> >The Queen, and all the rest us us, like yourself and other readers of the
> >pomo-French and neo-Marxists persuasions, has IMHO, known love and grief.
> >
> >Like us, I would assume she chooses words, of speechwriters or anyone
else,
> >which resonate with her own experience in loving and losing, in grieving,
> >sharing and attempting to console those who mourn.
> >
> >I think everyone is entitled to their own emotions, even if they have
lead
> >the sheltered lives of  royalty.  The Queen, being older than most of us,
> >has likely experienced more love and grief.
> >
> >Women on the List may feel and express difference(s)  from what we males
> >have written.
> >
> >I wouldn't despise the words of a professional writer, Shakespeare, for
> >example, or a chair-holding philosopher just  because they have more
> >advantages, more money, more fame and attention than you or I.
> >
> >All of us are sovereigns of our own feelings, loves and griefs. Others
have
> >only secondhand knowledge gleaned through our words and other languages
of
> >the senses and the arts.
> >
> >I think first-person feelings/emotions are the basis of  what Lyotard
called
> >the "social bond" and that bonding and loving is the basis of  community
and
> >humanity.
> >
> >And finally, the basis of a dream or vision of a better society.
> >
> >regards,
> >Hugh
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> >
> >I
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >It wasn't the queen of england - but a professional writer - she is
> >merely a rather sad actor who has been constructed to repeat words and
> >feelings...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>



   

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