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[Keith Davis]

I think this article is a fine piece of writing about our current situation.
Thank you for sharing it.
kd

Www.keithdavismusic.com

> On Apr 15, 2020, at 1:53 PM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So you judge something bad without reading it to the end? Perhaps you have
> missed the best part. And Logic 101 tells you that to say
> "You can still find ‘crowds’, but they’re made up of people you already
> know but can’t risk seeing ‘in real life’, brought to you by Zoom or
> FaceTime"
> doesn't exclude to be on Zoom videos with someone you don't know. What is
> the matter, Mark? I know you know that but you had to take the cheap shot
> anyway? And that Cuomo doesn't frown on walks is that an universally
> acknowledged truth? What did Shatz do to you without hitting a nerve?
> 
> 
> 
>> Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 17:44 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
>>> :
>> 
>> OK. Lucid it is. Like a powerful lens tinted in the wrong shade, Through a
>> lucid glass darkly, as that famous line goes.
>> 
>> Finding four things I judge wrong--one or two factually--others in
>> emphasis made me stop reading it.
>> 
>> Too much lucid and true writing around for me. This piece won't last
>> because it is bad, imho.
>> 
>> Others' milage may vary.
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 11:38 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Mark, I said lucid, not that he's right in everything – that I could not
>>> say without checking a whole lot for which I have no time. But perhaps he
>>> put his finger on something that you are not fond of, in context of the
>>> humiliation he speaks of.
>>> 
>>> And to quote M&E
>>> 
>>> ‘Man lives from nature,’ he wrote, ‘and he must maintain a continuing
>>> dialogue with it if he is not to die. To say that man’s physical and mental
>>> life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for
>>> man is a part of nature.’ ‘Let us not flatter ourselves overmuch on account
>>> of our human conquest of nature,’ E warned in *Dialectics of Nature*.
>>> ‘For each such conquest takes its revenge on us.’
>>> 
>>> after giving us Withers about toilets and garbage and baseball – that's
>>> what I call good journalism.
>>> 
>>> Am Mi., 15. Apr. 2020 um 13:57 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <
>>> mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>>> And, the better, less tendentious, more true quote from Camus is the
>>>> feeling of
>>>> being an internal exile, imao. Since almost everyone we encounter in *The
>>>> Plague*
>>>> does more than mark time. That applies to the people we readers are not
>>>> like; those
>>>> who are 'simply' marking time.
>>>> 
>>>> And I personally push back on everyone who says they can not tell what
>>>> day of the week it is.
>>>> Only writers marking time in general. An Ivory-pure, if they are honest,
>>>> percentage---(98.x%) knows
>>>> what fucking day of the week it is.
>>>> 
>>>> Sorry, Jochen, I am not fond.
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 5:24 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> most lucid texts I read about Corona and the US of A:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n08/adam-shatz/shipwrecked?utm_campaign=20200414%20blog&utm_content=ukrw_nonsubs_blog&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20blog%20email
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