Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Clips for the Creatively Maladjusted. Helpful Hints for radicals, intellectuals, strangers, artists, dreamers, readers, writers, speakers, activists, pacifists, fools, and professors. Extraordinary Discourse has been long in preparing. A multi-voiced thought adventure, around an hour a week. Its many themes converge in the theme of Play. Walt Whitman: "Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Extraordinary Discourse 004

Literature continues in society the tradition of myth-making, and myth-making has a quality that Levi-Strauss calls bricolage, a putting together of bits and pieces of whatever comes to hand. Long before Levi-Strauss, T.S. Eliot in an essay on Blake uses practically the same image, speaking of Blake's resourceful Robinson Crusoe method of scrambling together a system of thought out of the odds and ends of his reading... I soon realized that Blake was a typical poet in this regard.
Northrop Frye,
intro. to The Great Code