07-06-2023, 12:06 AM
Nowadays, you can find books that have no footnotes, but there is an appendix with annotations made by the editor. There's a two-volume book from the 1950s or something that is simply annotations for the Complete Works of William Butler Yeats. It describes place names and folklore and mythology and biographical information.
Then there are Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Books. I don't read Lord of the Rings or Stephen King or Terry Pratchett, but I have Encyclopedias of their Worlds, with maps and character biographies and the science and history and art of their cultures and geographies of the different planets and fictional towns and areas.
I don't have interest in narratives, I like items and lists of functions of people and other animals and entities and, at most, short anecdotes and folktales.
I like poems that unfold. I don't like to know. I fight understanding until it dawns on me anyway. Usually, something will happen in my life, and a line will flash back into my memory, and suddenly I'll know what it's about.
I use cultural appropriation, that in itself, as a poetic device. I got a spam email telling me that I was being monitored, that everything I say and what I look at and the look on my face when I pleasure myself has been recorded and will be exposed to the public if I don't send a certain amount of money. I responded that if I had that amount of money I'd pay to have all the gathered material on me broadcasted on the big screens in Time Square. You could as well turn the table on the Sociologists and tell them that their work isn't Poetic enough, and have them banned for that.
That part is in reference to Tiger-Lilly's Kiwi and Canada comments.
Then there are Dictionaries and Encyclopedias of Books. I don't read Lord of the Rings or Stephen King or Terry Pratchett, but I have Encyclopedias of their Worlds, with maps and character biographies and the science and history and art of their cultures and geographies of the different planets and fictional towns and areas.
I don't have interest in narratives, I like items and lists of functions of people and other animals and entities and, at most, short anecdotes and folktales.
I like poems that unfold. I don't like to know. I fight understanding until it dawns on me anyway. Usually, something will happen in my life, and a line will flash back into my memory, and suddenly I'll know what it's about.
I use cultural appropriation, that in itself, as a poetic device. I got a spam email telling me that I was being monitored, that everything I say and what I look at and the look on my face when I pleasure myself has been recorded and will be exposed to the public if I don't send a certain amount of money. I responded that if I had that amount of money I'd pay to have all the gathered material on me broadcasted on the big screens in Time Square. You could as well turn the table on the Sociologists and tell them that their work isn't Poetic enough, and have them banned for that.
That part is in reference to Tiger-Lilly's Kiwi and Canada comments.