tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360167919886596728.post3949188813334422111..comments2024-03-27T03:35:18.721-04:00Comments on Pansy Poetics: On Obits, Elegies, and Thomas M. DischSteve Fellnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11383222975171349962noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360167919886596728.post-77037290534509911992009-08-17T11:37:07.658-04:002009-08-17T11:37:07.658-04:00Hi Charles,
Your comments are great. I challenge...Hi Charles,<br /><br />Your comments are great. I challenge one of them, butSteve Fellnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11383222975171349962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6360167919886596728.post-17744281096770734732009-08-16T12:08:30.882-04:002009-08-16T12:08:30.882-04:00There's an idea in quantum physics that observ...There's an idea in quantum physics that observing a phenomenon determines its outcome. The primary example used is light. When observed for behavior as a particle, light behaves as a particle. When observed for behavior as a wave, it behaves like a wave. There's no logical reason for this.<br /><br />It might be that poets commit suicide because they are poets. It's certain to be true when you look at poets who have committed suicide and say, "Many poets commit suicide." When you look at the number of poets who do not commit suicide, even though it would be a much larger number, it doesn't seem as relevant. Too, this doesn't consider the number of people who write poetry but do not self-identify as poets, or the number of poets who have not yet published significantly to be identified by others as a "poet."<br /><br />Maybe a lot of stock brokers commit suicide too, I don't know. A lot of kindergarten teachers. A lot of Danish people.<br /><br />Perhaps if poets seem depressed, it's because we have an innate understanding of what a disappointment this world can be.<br /><br />I don't think many suicidal people write poems, though. I think the urge to suicide--to annihilate--is the opposite of the urge to create and to understand, to reconcile.<br /><br />I think of Schrödinger's Cat when this topic comes up. The cat isn't alive or dead until you open the box and look.Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05222297450888695352noreply@blogger.com