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I consider this as an interesting dialogue about aesthetics. A sharing of individually assembled information. (I talk of you and me, Leanne).
I once read a different approach to aesthetics based upon cybernetics (early 70ies). In nuce: the aesthetical value or degree(?) correlates to the amount of information contained in any work of art. I still find this a valuable hypothesis.
lol. The discourse between you and me.
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Leaving my general pettiness aside, I had not meant to condemn the use of science, or scientific terms and insights, in poetry. I think everything should be available, to be used, from Cockney to archaic language, to the language of the sciences, or of the Church for the matter of that.
I had been thinking really of chit-chat where advanced physics suddenly rears its head, trumping me of course, and I was amazed to see (not on the Pig) a recent discussion about where peop0le had got to -- the same people who spoke so easily of Nils Fanackerpan and Albert Oojamedoo, strings and I don't know what. It was nice to see what people can pick up in later life -- but as for arguing that Mr X was correct, and Prof Y was wrong, well, no.
Leanne, I am deliberately not calculating what day it is there, as I choose to believe you would not make such a tasteless remark about Sylvia, as much as she may have given me grief over the years.
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On the contrary, I'm sure Sylvia's very tasty. In honour of that redoubtable redhead, I think I'll bake a ginger cake.
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I love (and now please everyone feel free to sneer) her April Aubade.
I also love ginger.
but ginger more.
For Edward:
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_dawkins...verse.html
quite funny too.
and bc above you talked about making usage of all kinds of different languages for the use of poetry, i agree but would extend this to making use of all kinds of informations covered by these languages constructed to tell about these informations.
One website i find inspiring:
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/
cheers
serge
I laid down my arms.
to Leanne: re plonker. I don't buy that. but anyway.
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quote by Edward: "arguing for the masculinist bias of science, she has had the estimable insolence to suggest that the 20th century’s most resonant (and sinister) equation, E = MC2, may be sexist for having ‘privileged the speed of light’ or ‘what goes fastest’ over other velocities, and that if the science of fluid mechanics is under-developed, then that is because it is a quintessentially feminine topic"
Hilarious! rofl. But you know, the guys who published the sokal hoax were even better ( I mean:worse). as I said, I am the first to admit, sth went wrong with postmodernism at some point. Severely so. I recall an anecdote a friend told me, Lacan giving a lecture at a US unversity. Nobody got what L. was talking about but everyone went bananas. Including my friend (lol). politics, you know. I mean I studied linguistics (and even without postmodernisms) it got creepy enough, but we'd keep those guys out by any means. (there was a whisper of Derrida, but that was it). If I compare to the Literature departments I must admit , we were lucky.
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i'd like to hold my hand up in confusion. and ask in laymans terms...what's this thread about
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It's about how unlikely feminists are to get laid by physicists. Can't you tell?
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i thought all feminists got laid by physicists
me bad...i thought you meant female physicists
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I've seen this before. This is the point where all threads start on topic, but suddenly veer off the cliff going horribly wrong.
Who's not getting laid = cliff
The secret of poetry is cruelty.--Jon Anderson
