The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and CreativityTransaction Publishers - 331 էջ Consciousness, declares Robin Fox, is "out of context." Useful as an adaptation in the Stone Age, it brought humanity to the top of the food chain but has now created a world it cannot control. The Passionate Mind explores this paradox not through academic demonstration but through satiric dialogues, blank-verse ruminations, lyric, narrative and comic verse, and Aesopian fables. This mix of genres and styles forces us out of our usual linear modes of thinking to confront a harsh thesis. Because of consciousness we cannot operate without ideas, but once in thrall to ideas--whether of love, power, religion, or ideology--we cannot operate without destructiveness lest we become imprisoned by them. |
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... children who were once capable of it , it has been corrupted and replaced by an inability to think except in the form of a debasing stereotypy of various kinds , which is as far removed from thinking as the pleasure of challenging hard ...
... children . Such pathogenic ideas — the idea of " race , " for example — are at least as dangerous as the worst of disease - producing organisms . Fuzzy ideas can be just as bad . In the latter connection , Fox starts off in his " Diary ...
... child labor called " The Cry of the Children . " Again , as in the Kent State poem , Fox sees his particular fears about protect- ing his own children as an exemplar of a more universal problem of protecting the innocent young from the ...
... effects of better and better education ( if these can be achieved ) on improving human understanding , especially of the right way to rear children in se- curity and love so that they do not need to xxxiv THE PASSIONATE MIND.
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
to establish some basic things | 11 |
THE FOOL SINGS OF HIS SKULL AND ITS CONTENTS | 12 |
HE APOLOGIZES TO HER FOR COMPARING HER EYES TO THE WINGS OF CAPTIVE HUMMINGBIRDS USED IN NAVAHO RITUALS | 13 |
THE CONFERENCE OF FOULES | 15 |
CONFERENCE ODE | 21 |
WHAT THE HUNTER SAW | 23 |
OVERHEARD IN THE PUB | 28 |
Hommage to Prufrock | 221 |
NEATLY ROLLED UMBRELLAS | 224 |
with redeeming social content | 225 |
NEW SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE | 226 |
MAN IN A HANGGLIDER | 227 |
LAST REQUEST | 228 |
Four Daughter Poems | 229 |
KATES EYES From The French | 230 |
EVOLUTIONARY POETICS | 30 |
TWO MORE LYRICS | 41 |
LE PRINCE COCHON | 43 |
RITUALPOWERAUTHORITY | 45 |
LOVE AMONG THE PLANETS BALLAD FOR THE GHOST OF YEATS | 53 |
DIVINA COMMEDIA FOR BYRONS GHOST | 54 |
A Nightmare | 56 |
NOTE TO THE THEOLOGIAN | 64 |
LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER | 67 |
LETTER FROM LT JOHN BRIDGES HANDLER TO HIS FATHER SENATOR JAMES WHITMORE HANDLER | 68 |
HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT FROM THE BOX | 70 |
FRAGMENT 1 THE CHARGE AGAINST COLONEL WASHINGTON | 79 |
FRAGMENT 3 THE EVIDENCE OF GENERAL SIR BENEDICT ARNOLD | 89 |
THE EVIDENCE OF MR JOHN ADAMS | 95 |
FRAGMENT 5 THE EVIDENCE OF MR THOMAS JEFFERSON | 104 |
FRAGMENT 6 THE VERDICT OF THE COURT | 113 |
STATEMENT OF COLONEL WASHINGTON | 114 |
FRAGMENT 8 THE SENTENCE OF THE COURT | 116 |
more than twenty years on | 119 |
of the Olympic Hotel Seattle Washington | 121 |
WORDS FOR A BOSTON BLUES | 123 |
BORING CONFESSION | 124 |
FOR MY DAUGHTERS | 127 |
HAPPINESS PURSUED | 130 |
STATEN ISLAND INTERLUDE | 135 |
SAN FRANCISCO SUMMER | 146 |
INDIAN GIRL | 154 |
WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT SWEDEN? | 159 |
IMAGE DE LA COMTESSE | 164 |
INTUITION STRUCTURE AND PASSION REVISITED | 166 |
STRUCTURAL SONNET | 167 |
SAD SONNET | 168 |
A PostTutorial Dialogue | 169 |
COMING OF AGE IN JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE An Ode to the Selfish Gene | 180 |
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES | 182 |
THREE INTERRUPTIONS OF RATIONAL ARGUMENTS | 183 |
PATRIMONY FOR A POSSIBLE POSTERITY | 186 |
REASON IS AND OUGHT TO BE FUTILE | 189 |
LYRICS ON THE FEMALE ENIGMA | 191 |
GIRLS WHO LOST THEIR FATHERS | 192 |
PROSPECT OF NUCLEAR WINTER | 193 |
THE SEA AT SANTA MARTA | 194 |
PSALM ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTYONE | 200 |
FROM CATULLUS TO LESBIA | 215 |
CLAIRE DE LUNE FÊTES GALANTES | 216 |
Undergraduate Poems 195557 | 217 |
Hommage a la Rive Gauche | 218 |
Inauthentic Lives | 219 |
TAME KILLERS | 220 |
A TEARDROP WRAPPED IN AN ENIGMATO ANNE | 232 |
AMERGINS SONG REVISITED | 234 |
THE MINDS I | 236 |
THE LEGACY Belfast 1997 | 237 |
WHERE WERE YOU WHEN KENNEDY WAS KILLED? | 239 |
THE ALLEGORY OF THE CIRCUS | 240 |
ALPINE INTERLUDE | 244 |
THE MOUNTAINEER | 245 |
LA FEMME QUI ADORAIT LA LUNE | 247 |
CHANSON DU VAMPIRE | 251 |
EARTHWORMS | 252 |
CROWS | 255 |
TREES | 259 |
VULTURES | 261 |
Incident at Lascaux circa 15000 BP | 266 |
THE HEDGEHOG AND THE FOX | 271 |
WHERE HAVE THE HEROES GONE? | 282 |
OEDIPUS DENTIFREX | 285 |
THE LONG LINE | 287 |
A DOROTHY PARKER MEMORIAL | 288 |
HIPPIE GIRL | 289 |
TIREDNESS | 290 |
PRIMATOLOGICAL FLIBBERTIGIBBET | 291 |
MR TITMARCH | 292 |
UNBORN SONNET | 293 |
HAIKU engraved on a medical bracelet | 294 |
KISSING YOUR SISTER | 295 |
HIGH LIVING | 296 |
SERIOUS OLD SOCIALISTS | 298 |
LE ROI SAMUSE | 300 |
THE GRAND MARQUIS TO HIS EXECUTIONER | 302 |
SNOWFLAKES AND SIMILES | 303 |
MANDELBROT SONNET | 304 |
THE MESSIAH MISSION | 307 |
THE INCARNATION PLAN | 310 |
THE FOLLOWERS | 312 |
JUDAS AND THE TRUTH | 314 |
THE CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE | 318 |
THE MIRACLES | 319 |
THE TRANSFIGURATION | 320 |
PILATE AND THE TRIAL | 321 |
THE MOTHER | 323 |
THE MAGDALENE | 324 |
FROM THE GAELIC | 327 |
EPITAPH ON AN INTELLECTUAL MERCENARY | 328 |
GROWING OLD GRACELESSLY | 329 |
THE DREAMMAN | 330 |