NP but have we called him hyperbolic lately or labelled his style Baroque? Fits.

[Michael Bailey]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
> Although I want to agree with that last line, why? Why isn't an accepting
> realism more of a 'poetics and metaphysics of immanence'? I have one answer.
>
> You.
>


Who, me?


If I follow at all, "hyperbole is the primary engine of a poetics and
metaphysics of immanence" because, umm, reality is stranger than
fiction, Gargantuan, larger than sober discourse can describe?
and I guess that's true, and there's a place and a time for ranting
and raving, and hyperbolic statements are daily enfolded into common
parlance, sometimes quite amusingly,
but my heart belongs more to positivism, and the little, unassuming,
well-researched statements that can be made confidently, in sober
tones, like Obama's speech