tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991402668327441142.post6738960754711749393..comments2024-01-29T15:41:12.310-08:00Comments on Rich Puchalsky's blog: The Ones WhoRich Puchalskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10543499708727953026noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991402668327441142.post-82478519286449282142010-06-17T08:49:51.667-07:002010-06-17T08:49:51.667-07:00Thanks, Linda and Adam. I'm going to write mo...Thanks, Linda and Adam. I'm going to write more about the Le Guin story specifically as soon as I get the energy.Rich Puchalskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13565210317964576866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991402668327441142.post-16956672267042848512010-06-14T14:42:36.058-07:002010-06-14T14:42:36.058-07:00Rich,
The egg metaphor or egg diversion (whichever...Rich,<br />The egg metaphor or egg diversion (whichever), speaks volumes here and sets the stage for some fantastic dialogue. I liked this a lot. I appreciated the meanderings and the speaker's questioning mind, esp whether or not it's the truth that should be spoke or the bullshit that "is" spoken. I appreciate where you went with this one including your sidebar commentary. This is certainly an expressive contemporary poem.<br />Linda Bratcher Wlodyka<br />floposoLindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16988646643224477083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1991402668327441142.post-92125456503110108242010-06-09T09:54:12.230-07:002010-06-09T09:54:12.230-07:00I like this very much; one of your strongest poems...I like this very much; one of your strongest poems. Long, but certainly earns its length.<br /><br />I've often wondered if that le Guin story (or the William James passage she got the core idea from) isn't often taken the wrong way. I suppose I take it as a gloss on the 'a single death is a tragedy a million a statistic' idea ... which is to say: the happiness of the people of Omelas depends upon the misery of one child, and Le Guin's fable is in some sense about <i>our</i> complicity in the misery of others. But I wonder if, more particularly, it is saying something about the horror of <i>individual</i> empathy. It would be more intolerable to live in Omelas knowing that your happiness depended upon one child was suffering, than it would knowing that your happiness depended upon the suffering of millions of others. That's counterintuitive, perhaps; and morally idiotic; but I wonder if it isn't the truth.The Spirit of Creative Writinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08814590995293463174noreply@blogger.com