We have seen this before, in a different form: Paul Mishkin famously described the "
variousness" of judge-made federal law.
Mishkin, The
Variousness of "Federal Law": Competence and Discretion in the Choice of National and State Rules for Decision, 105 U.
And yet to keep fully open to the
variousness and inherent value neutrality of a given extended language system may clash productively with value loyalties and convictions that define the distinctness of a poet's identity, together with the reflection or modification of this profile adherent within the personality of the imaginary.
But, clearly, along with an almost vertiginous account of poetic
variousness and diversity in jazz resonant writing and performance, Meta DuEwa Jones's own poetics has intensified our sense of possible critical practice.
The prose block shape of "Origin Myth" tells us it is not like other lyric poems, and its title and position as the first poem in "Book One: The Moonstone" in a book of poetry named Three Novels might remind us that the first stories were poems, that beneath structure there is
variousness, that songs precede sentences, tossing up into the air the very idea of narrative as a knot needing to be undone.
Wholly different in personality, temperament, and as writers--Frisch, the master of impersonality, metaphoric subtlety,
variousness and elegance of form; Durrenmatt bizarre, satiric, almost clownish in his tragic-comic plays--the two groped and struggled over a lifetime to make their relationship (friendship?) work.
"A man or woman without any interest in gossip may be impressive in his or her restraint, but also wanting in curiosity, uninterested in the
variousness of human nature, dead to the wildly abundant oddity of life, and thereby, in some central way, deficient." The question is why gossip persists and we persist in delighting in it in spite of our moralistic finger-shaking.
The passionate and paradoxical desire to end desires leads only to the continuation of life in all its
variousness, confusions, tragedies, and improper desires.
Trilling defined Liberalism as "a political position which affirmed the value of individual existence in all its
variousness, complexity, and difficulty.
Practically, too, a further consequence of the setting up of divisions between connotation and notation--a division at work in how a poet is supposed to handle language--is that it puts a fire-wall at the heart of poetic expression: what I might term the abundance, the sheer
variousness, of utterance--its directness, its wandering way, its divagations and its energy, its talk and its transparency--are de-emphasized in favour of writing which concentrates on tropes and metaphors which work connotatively.
I do feel fortunate that the lesbian struggle for freedom and recognition in recent years makes it possible in 1996 to gather together a collection of letters that represents the
variousness and vitality of our loving.
The great
variousness and plurality of goodness bas given comfort to general skepticism about values and a multitude of metaethical attitudes or predilections.
