File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1997/phillitcrit.9711, message 487


Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 22:48:16 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Romanticism & higher pantheism


>At 08:18 PM 11/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 6:33 PM -0500 11/9/97, George Trail wrote:
>>>>Properly speaking "Romanticism" is a sub-catagorey of 18th century German
>>>>poetry, and even people who are now happily labeled "Romantic" denied the
>>>>term. Partially because like the word "Impressionist" it was a term of
>>>>abuse.
>>>
>>>Stirling, to whom are you lecturing? Whence comes your "properly"?
>>
>>Whence came the other "properly"'s
>>
>>Well Mr. Trail, I can see that personal animus clouds your logic still.
>>Your statements are rife with "Well I'll put this young wippersnapper into
>>place." [Etc. etc., amoebaean dialogue `a la Theokritos Idyll 5 and the
>>like.]
>>
>
>Well, why am I not shocked that if anyone would it would eventually be
>George and Stirling who'd end up strolling once again down the eristic
>side-trail together, promenading on down to the bottom of the Garden of
>Eden, in the cool of the evening? Hey, you two wiper-snappers, Romanticism
>is more about eros than eris. Drop a chill pill, as they say in the lingo.
>Ay, caramba!
>
>Greg Downing/NYU, at greg.downing-AT-nyu.edu or downingg-AT-is2.nyu.edu

Thank you Greg, and please stop me before I post again. I am most heartily
sorry for having posted prior to reading this caution, this lesson, this
wisdom, and I promise to try not to do it again. That eristic "side-trail"
wouldn't be a pun would it?  One hopes not.  Might one say though that the
distinction beween eros and eris might be hasty? It could perhaps be
explored on the list? One can hope.

Yrs. for art (what else is there?)
g




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