I really enjoyed reading this!! i love philosophical questions like these to think about, i signed up for a philosophy class for which i thought would be reading stuff like this, only its philosophy 102, intro to logic, which turns out it counts as a math credit and its solving equations like truth tables and stuff. sucks. sorry i just had to vent there for a sec.
one idea that stood out to me was page 58 and written by george gessert. where he says "for those [irises] that enchant me i will be a protector and a bumble bee" I thought that that was so thoughtful and so real life, and like the way things work. bumble bees need that flower to live. they depend on it to get the pollen, so their colony can strive. and him saying he will be the protector is pretty self explanatory. I feel as if the Irises he is referring to is his 'women" that he will have throughout his life. He will not only protect them and be there for them, but he will depend on them to live.
that is the interpretation i made for that idea, im not sure if i should call them ideas or quotes? i feel as if they are philosophical ideas, so im going to call them ideas!
Another idea that stood out in my mind was on page 66, it says "Make a poem the way nature makes a tree" by huidobro. I feel like this is reflecting upon the fact that you cant just learn language and then write a poem. It takes nature many years to make a tree, just as it would take many ideas, and a lot of experience to write a in depth insightful poem. anyone can write poetry stuff like "i love you just like the blue loves the sky, the green loves the grass, and the brown loves the dirt" but that doesn't mean anything! i came up with that in three seconds. It cant be appreciated, i don't believe the green loves the grass or the brown loves the dirt. That was just said to make some acquaintances between objects. But ideas have to build and grow over time to make someone substantial. something that will stand for hundreds and hundreds of years, like a tree.
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This is a nice post that deals with the wonder of philosophy. If you like this sort of philosophy you will probably find little of it in WWU's philosophy department as it is based upon Analytic Philosophy--Avital Ronnel is from the Continental Philosophic tradition.
ReplyDeleteohh thats great info! thanks so much! haha ill be sure to stay away from those classes
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