02-09-2012, 12:54 PM
I am given to understand that Greeks and Romans were always at least a little bit bent 
Here I find the fulcrum:
I can't help thinking of the dear (bent) Greek Socrates, knowing only that he knows nothing. It is easy to please an idiot, he has but one button (or lever, I suppose, if it's a man we're talking about) -- but the more we learn, the harder it is to impress us.
This is probably why I feel compelled to suspend any predilections toward complex thought when I want to be entertained, and head straight to the most base and vulgar.
Here I find the fulcrum:
Quote:when i find a poet who
"really speaks to me"
is that because they push the ten buttons i have available?
when i learn more
will i have a hundred?
will the old ten still be there?
I can't help thinking of the dear (bent) Greek Socrates, knowing only that he knows nothing. It is easy to please an idiot, he has but one button (or lever, I suppose, if it's a man we're talking about) -- but the more we learn, the harder it is to impress us.
This is probably why I feel compelled to suspend any predilections toward complex thought when I want to be entertained, and head straight to the most base and vulgar.
It could be worse