TRTR(1) Eye Goddesses Wearing Dipthongs

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Tue Apr 12 07:14:16 CDT 2011



On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Paul Mackin wrote:
> On 4/11/2011 9:41 PM, Richard Ryan wrote:
> > People were still talking like that back in the late 70s, when I was a kid.
> Guess it was (like Mark said) a case of where you were and who you were
> with.  My 70s was devoid of intellectual content.  Wrong domestic
> partners probably.  I would have had to talk to myself.

What public sphere of enlightenment there had been crawled neomedievally
back into sanctuaries by the 1970s, with an all-wise hermit like TRP
becoming something of a paradigmatic figure.


Heikki

>
> P
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Paul Mackin<mackin.paul at verizon.net>  wrote:
> >>> I like Gaddis because he recalls the 50s for me.  Intellectual people  DID
> >>> talk
> >>> like that back then.  They talked about classical music and famous poems
> >>> like
> >>> the Waste Land and quoted a lot of things.  They were imbued with a lot of
> >>> European culture.  Now it would seem affected but it didn't back then.
> >>>
> >>> Ah, Wilderness.
> >>>
> >>> P
> >>>
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> >
> >
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