In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation's culture and one of the by- produ...cts of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A crowd of ordinary decent folk Watched from without and neither moved nor spoke... As three pale figures were led forth and bound To three posts driven upright in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that organic sex, body against body, skin area against skin area, is becoming no longer possible, simply because if anyt...hing is to have any meaning for us it must take place in terms of the values and experiences of the media landscape.... What we're getting is a whole new order of sexual fantasies, involving a different order of experiences, like car crashes, like travelling in jet aircraft, the whole overlay of new technologies, architecture, interior design, communications, transport, merchandising. These things are beginning to reach into our lives and change the interior design of our sexual fantasies. We've got to recognize that what one sees through the window of the TV screen is as important as what one sees through a window on the street.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out th...ere to do unto me what they do unto themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Saturday mornings we listened to Red Lantern & his undersea folk. At 11, Let's Pretend/& we did/& I, the poet, still do, Than...k God!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anestheti...c: It is the only medium of art I can think of which appeals directly to none of our five senses. The oral and folk tradition in narrative made use of verse or live-voice dynamics, embellished by gesture and expression--a kind of rudimentary theater--as do the best raconteurs of all times. Commonly there was musical accompaniment as well: a kind of one-man theater-of-mixed-means.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A part, a large part, of travelling is an engagement of the ego v. the world.... The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks an...d as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »