Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:55:48 -0500
From: "George Y. Trail" <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Reading Writing


Are you talking to me? I'm the person who wrote, "To what?" So I guess
I'm the only one here.

My point was simply that relevance is always and forever relative to the
imposed (not discovered) meaningfulness grid. In a mad moment once I
suggested that art (so labeled, like, "I write 'poetry'") is decayed
play.  Mudpies and jumprope rhymes to Brancusi and Philip Glass.  

g 

Twin Towers Educational Productions wrote:
> 
> Yes, please expand and finish the thought..."as relevant as the play of
> children" to WHAT...?
> 
> Because, you see, I find the play of children incredibly relevant to almost
> all aspects of Life and Learning.  There is so much that is learned in what
> is played and how...by children...and the outcomes, at least, are very much
> more concrete that one might initially think.   Or, at least, in both my
> research, my ponderings, my experiences with Children.   So, I would be
> very interested in your thoughts...
> 
> Best,
> Marlena
> 
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> > From: George Y. Trail <gtrail-AT-uh.edu>
> > To: phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > Subject: Re: PLC: Reading Writing
> > Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:38 PM
> >
> > Relevant to what?
> > g
> >
> > Alex Trifan wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Words can never be contrived to stand in for anything firm or solid.
> They
> > > always inflate into vast clouds of limitless allusions, ironic
> connections
> > > legitimating all kinds of fancy. Literature and rhetoric are
> essentially
> > > cloudbusting and cloudhunting activities, about as relevant as the play
> of
> > > children.
> > >
> > > Alex Trifan
> > > on a cloudy night, in
> > > Providence, RI
> > >
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