File spoon-archives/marxism2.archive/marxism2_1996/96-04-08.195, message 19


Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:43:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew J Dubuque <virtual-AT-leland.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: BLAKE & THE MODERNS (1)


On Sat, 30 Mar 1996, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> BLAKE AND THE MODERNS -- EXERCISES IN COMPARISON (1)
>
>  So many have misappropriated Blake for pernicious ends -- Yeats, Ellis,
> the Surrealists, Raine, Harper, or some of the dumbbells in
> cyberspace who would link Blake to the Zen Buddhist interpretation
> of quantum mechanics -- all based on dubious comparative methods,
> which in the final analysis rest on abstracting certain properties
> of Blake that correspond to their own interests -- e.g. the
> imagination -- and reducing Blake to the level of their own
> paltry, reactionary ideologies.   I feel to spit....
> shallowness too is typical of the American artsy-fartsy crowd....
>
> (Ralph Dumain, 31 March 1996, 2:30 am EST)
>
>
Ralphie-

    I'm sure that you were not referring to my comments abou7t quantume
mechanics and Blake, because I ofcoursse was referring to Heisenberg's
view of quantum mechanics.  He won a Nobel Prize for that (His Uncertainty
Principle).  Incidentallyk, I perused the list of recent Nobel Prize
winners and if failed to find your name on it.  Oh well, who really NEEDS
a Nobel anyway?  However, I am mentioning this because maye you had also
won a Nobel and somehow they had failed to publiciise it proerly.

      As for being a reactionary,  I am sastonished with how well you know
my voting patterns.  What cheap heuristics did you use to arrive at that
conclusion?

     	Perhaps you resort to ad hominem arguments out of frustration at
not being persuasive.  Didn't you learn in your rhetoric class that such
techniques undermine your credibility?

	If you "feel to spit" , please don't do it in cyberspace.  A man
of perfect manners such as yourself shouldn't lower himself that way.
Take it from a squire.  No wonder you feel excluded from normal social
relations.

	Get some sunshine.  Enjoy the beauty of nature as Blake did.
Other than that, the majority of what you said was coherent, although
sometimes you confuse Logical Types.


Matthew Dubuque, JD

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