Springfield's weather

                                    
                                               
was forecast to be partly cloudy but, at slightly
above freezing, this year's first snow is sifting
blithely by, and has a 60% chance of continuing to
most of today.  The ghost of Ezra Pound waltzing/
with the ghost of Robert Frost.  The snow leopard?
The snow goose?  Snowy owls?                        
                                                   
Something more later perhaps.                     
                                                 
11:35 AM -- two quotes                                 
Curtis Faville in a Silliman's Blog comment to Ed [Baker]:                                            
"In the ideal society, all public identity would be
banned in the campaign against the cult of personality,
all works would be by 'anonymous.'  Self-efacement is  
the new paradigm.  All Hail, Anon!"                    
See ronsilliman.blogspot.com/search/label/history
Tuesday, November 25, 2008                             
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Robert Archambeau in an interview of him published in
ChicagoPostmodernPoetry.Com:                           
"Roland Barthes was on to something when he said   
that the author, in the romantic sense of the isolated     
visionary, is dead.  What we have now is the scriptor,
whose sole power is to mingle writing.  I like this   
notion, and see it as a sign of vigor in our literary
culture, complaints from pessimists like Frederic   
Jameson notwithstanding."                             
See Robert Archambeau link in my Rho00227 post.      
                                                    
While I know both Faville and Archambeau express valid   
positions in that ultimately planet Earth will cease
and that we are now not only post-agendas but are also
becoming post-Homosapiens/ I remain committed to--    
however self-congratulatory--the presence of signature.
History (even corrupted history--remembrance, continuity,
perception) matters.  Nonetheless, I do not favor the   
my-car's-better-than-your-car attitude.  My favorite    
flavor of ice cream was mint, and might still be, but  
these days chocolate chips are blended into mint ice
cream.  Tomorrow it will be chocolate ice cream with   
mint chips.  I would rather there be no literary canons
and no poetics skirmishes, but it can't be avoided.
Humans--myself included--are always searching for new 
ways of seeing.  6 x 2 = 12 and 6 x 3 = 18.  6 x 17 =
102 and 6 x 18 = 108.  6 x 32 = 192 and 6 x 33 = 198.
And the important number here is: 15.  Just something
else in my weather today.  So what's new to me is old
to you and what's new to you is old to me, or, or.  You    
should read what that K. Silem Mohammad man posted
recently.

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9:54 PM 
A comment by Dale Smith over at PFHarriet
has moved me to add a link to a 17-page pdf excerpt
from Timothy Morton's Harvard University Press book:
Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

I am going to try to get this book through a library here.
                         
                                                       
            
                                                        
                             
Rho00228