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Poem of Critical Commentary: Lyn Hejinian

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“ Umbrellas — strange totalities — upheld, wheeling.” ---Lyn Hejinian, ‘ [but isn’t midnight intermittent] ’ ( poetryfoundation.org , 2.2.2024) Remark: Lyn Hejinian.---Her name, then. Her reputation, that is. Her good name, then too. I hold myself to not upsetting her, nor her good name. Unless that upset were merely a seeming, a confusion, and so, perchance very well worth the seeming, initial confusion of her (untrue) dishonor, as this can go rather far for bestowing a greater good, as a return perhaps (to overdo it) of her same immutable good as before—plus an impossibly greater surfeit of self-same goodness, all this to her name. I sincerely wonder if her fortune, her fortunate name, or title, see: her titles, can change at all in any aspect in the least, no matter whatever the unter-spleen’d effluxes of this contribution. Again, and yet directly to it, a name: an umbrella, a strange totality, upheld, wheeling—and this, as a scant remodeling of how these words first appear in the h
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ABSOLUTE FREEDOM AND TERROR by Maxwell Clark “In this absolute freedom all social ranks or classes… are effaced and annulled…” –Hegel's Phenomenology Rather deep into Hegel’s Phenomenology there is a section entitled, “Absolute Freedom and Terror”. Although I cannot directly summarize Hegel’s insights in this section here, I will at least passionately suggest their reading or rereading. All that follows in this article is therefore of nowise equal value to Hegel’s monstrous virtuosity. The passage in question is its own best interpreter, in other words. I merely point up to my superior. What is so ingenious about Hegel's account of class-annulling and universal revolutionary subjectivity is his assured knowledge of its real limits. He is actually nowise utopian, in the sense that he speaks here: “For the universal [subject and will] to pass into a deed, it must gather itself into the single unity of individuality, and put an individual consciousness in the forefront; for univer
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Rocky Montage

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by Maxwell Owen Clark Not going to say it.  You know the rest.  It's all there already.  Pretty much, yeah.  Once ago and shit.  The story continues.  Interesting reportage.  The guy wins in the end.  You really learn something from it.
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