I try to use humility. I try to be humble. Something that is absolutely...absent. In this program I have been involved in for the past year and a half.
Maybe that's important. Maybe it's important not to be humble. Maybe it's important to believe everything I have to say is truly important. Every thought I have is unique.
Though that is not the case. And especially not the case in this program.
It is not the purpose of this blog to be used personally, or as another conduit to shove what I write in other people's faces. I am completely certain everyone has at least 3 other avenues (electronic avenues) in order to do that.
Anyone can write a blog. I have a blog exclusively where I write and leave my own poetry, as well as other poems I like. And it is somewhere on the internet no one will find.
That's why I called this blog 'A Loss of Distinction.' Easy enough to create blogs; this meant to be used as a venue to explore the texts and ideas resulting from the class it stems from.
Not another avenue of mindlessness. Not another place where the people of this program can plant ideas they deem 'fascinating' or 'unique.' These words don't apply.
I have done my best to keep my mouth shut throughout my time in this program. It is hard to do much of the time. It hasn't been fun. I don't have the guts to call people out on their shit; their shit flies constantly.
As for the work we have read:
Especially in Robert Duncan's work, the way it was written, I feel, directs greatly the manner in which the actor should portray the words. Either through punctuation and spacing (Fear. Wrath. Disaster. Woe.) or emphasis placed on words or phrases through capitalization (underneath the MOO- I mean, the moon...) the writing directs itself. Of course there are not stage directions, which is a major difference, but the language and how it is written directs itself in a major way.
In Helen Adams' play, it is the same, but the form the writing plays with is of course meter and rhythm. It too doesn't lend stage direction, but the classic elegance of the form of the writing, combined with the sillyness of the plot is what lends this play its power. In my opinion.
I think you have a lot of great things to say about the work, both what we are reading, and your own. I would love to see more of that... I know you can go on, so take it further. What else is interesting, useful, mysterious, weird... what sounds good and what makes you annoyed... what fuels your own thinking and writing and what do you need more of, would like to see/hear/witness, etc... even annoyances and general shit can be useful and motivating.. focus that and use it to your creative advantage...
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