tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post110228482082053951..comments2023-06-27T16:51:05.805+02:00Comments on The Pangrammaticon: Untested PoemThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1102541189054557972004-12-08T22:26:00.000+01:002004-12-08T22:26:00.000+01:00I had to think about that for awhile. Here's what...I had to think about that for awhile. Here's what I got. First, I don't think flarf precludes a human connection. I find myself agreeing with some sense of Tony's "big hearted Tostian empathy" project. Flarf makes a very specific, very precise kind of connection; and I think precision is sometimes considered inhuman, sometimes perhaps rightly.<br /><br />Second, this poem, too, is all about naming. I retitled it "Untested Poem" so that test = name. "Untested" as others might use "untitled". To name something is to install the thing in the usage. One ought to test components before installing them in larger machines. It is, of course, absurd to think one can test a world, let alone completely. And I suppose that sentiment, therefore, is sad.<br /><br />But flarf offers at least a test procedure and (here's the interesting thing) it is natural that this procedure--its search terms--constitute the title.<br /><br />Or maybe I'm just making excuses.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1102291478635625982004-12-06T01:04:00.001+01:002004-12-06T01:04:00.001+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1102291478330061692004-12-06T01:04:00.000+01:002004-12-06T01:04:00.000+01:00Interesting. I hadn't considered the connection to...Interesting. I hadn't considered the connection to the Tractatus (nor, I'm now considering, the connection to the "build us his world" remark of E.P.'s).<br /><br />"a sad, flarfy way" is a critical notion I'll have to get more precise about (can you help?).<br /><br />Basically, I was trying to make a poem somwhat like "Pilot", and went looking for a mildly profound (i.e., flarfy?) ending on par with<br /><br />"I am not a pilot but I am beginning to understand the pilot's cause:/it's the same one we all have."<br /><br />which indicates, perhaps, an aesthetic that says the last line should not be the strongest.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com