From: "John Bale" <eda38-AT-educ.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: walking in the maze
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:52:32 +0100


Property (ice boxes) is theft

John Bale
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Subject: Re: walking in the maze


> Who ate the plums that someone else was saving for breakfast?  Is this a
> case of patriarchal domination?  Or at least of someone imposing his/her
> will on someone else in the house?  (I hope no one takes this seriously.
> How can every poem be political?  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
> No, don't - it might offend someone.)
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> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Terry Goldie wrote:
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> > I suspect Canadian First Nations might have something to say about the
way
> > British plum-eaters treated their icebox.
> > terry
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> > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Tim Durkin wrote:
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> > > Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:41:24 -0400
> > > From: Tim Durkin <tdurkin-AT-loyola.edu>
> > > Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > > To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> > > Subject: Re: walking in the maze
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> > > Bianca Isaki,
> > >          I'm going to quote a poem in reply.
> > >
> > > This Is Just To Say
> > >       William Carlos Williams
> > >
> > >       I have eaten
> > >       the plums
> > >       that were in
> > >       the icebox
> > >
> > >       and which
> > >       you were probably
> > >       saving
> > >       for breakfast
> > >
> > >       Forgive me
> > >       they were delicious
> > >       so sweet
> > >       and so cold
> > >
> > > Where's the political purpose?  Sure, the narrator likes cold plums,
and I
> > > suppose that can be read as a tangential endorsement of the
> > > military-industrial refrigerator maker Westinghouse...
> > >          Tim
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> > >
> > > >I still fail to see how language, text, etc. can exist in some realm
of
> > > >'aesthetic beauty' without conforming/ subscribing to some political
> > > >purpose/ theory. Unless we agree that concepts of beauty can be
devoid of
> > > >power and authority... which I doubt that we could do. Help me out
here.
> > > >
> > > >Bianca Isaki
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> > Terry Goldie
> > English Department
> > York University
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> > email: tgoldie-AT-yorku.ca
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