File spoon-archives/phillitcrit.archive/phillitcrit_1998/phillitcrit.9803, message 41


Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 21:53:06 -0600
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: [H-BLOOM] Western Canon University


>On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, deaun moulton wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, T. Q. Alexander wrote:
>>
>> > Bravo!!
>> > And so it should be!
>> >
>>
>> But.....Truth is political.........
>
>True, and what better way to hide politics than by appeal to--THE TRUTH?
>
>hh

Stop it Howard. You are just confusing people, and that isn't nice.  We all
know that Truth is beauty, beauty truth, and that is all we know on earth,
and, like, all we need to know.  So there.

There is, of course, no such thing as a conservative poet on the simple
basis that a poet (maker, creator) must be original, and conservatism, in
and of itself, is a holding action.  To respect James Joyce is not
tantamount to conservatism.
g




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