Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 15:25:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time




TMB writes:

>Of course. There is, however, very little that is "American" in my views
>here! Now, the American tendency *not* to learn foreign languages is of
>not so good. Please do not attribute this to my xenophobia or whatever
>senf-centered ignorance or "ugly Americanism" you might (understandably) 
>imagine. I don't learn foriegn languages for one reason only: I don't have
>the energy for it. I am *poor*, in a more essential definition of poverty
>which perhaps the likes of Heidegger can help to illuminate. In point of
>fact, one project I have had in mind for a long time is a kind of
>phenomenological exploration of language learning that would be on par
>with David Sudnow's phenomenological exploration of learning jazz piano,
>with a view, perhaps, towards designing better literacy programs in, say,
>"third world" contries and inner city settings. Along with this could be a
>project that has to do with programmed learning that integrates such
>knowledge in certain ways in order to enable language learning. Illiteracy
>is probably the single greatest problem in countries and places where
>there is much starvation and violence. Again, lack of "energy" hold me
>back from this, just one project of many... 
>

don't listen to em, tom.
these fellers 'r un-de-structured...  
 plying the everyday comportment of their trade
(wordswordswords)
...all this grammato-philologico-linguistico lumber 's the
same old modernist swindle...

the rarefied heights of todtnauberg
coheres somehow with the mud 'n th'blood 'n th'beer of messkirch/frieberg?
(wherein, sure, the koine figures somehow integrally with
the entire  life-world...
eye of newt 'n toe of frog ... hell's broth,
which it is the normal business of mad pedagogs to tease out)
but, for think'n,
polemic 's the item...
dialectically sloggin the forestpaths...
and whatever's to hand for method

re nationalism/nazism:i'd match  the nihilism
of our tobacco road bill's bottomless narcissism gainst all commers, quick 'r dead...
as also our pop/lumpen cult  (hip-hoppers'd make skinheads blush) .
...but as with H & co it is yet the banality of nihilism, not its fearsomeness,
that impresses.

july 4 salutations
bob

















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