Compulsiveness as a remedy for apathy. Despair as
a remedy for compulsiveness. If you could just watch
you might call it a circus.

Only the makers know that they only make metaphors.

Really, it's too much to expect people to crave growth
who don't even crave good bread.

"His thoughts are so much higher than his state,
That, like a mountain hanging o'er a hut,
They chill and darken it." --Beddoes

I'm so glad i finally have a link for ostranenie [thanx, Ron]. (Although this
is the received form, from poking around in a Russian dictionary
i believe the proper transliteration is otstranenie.) How's
that different from "MAKE IT NEW"--? I think it shifts the emphasis
from novelty of technique to novelty of perception... BTW, what i love
about these Korean translations i've been posting, & also about Ovid
Neal, is the fact that they contain things no ordinary poet in English
would think of leaving. They'd fix it. But as they are, there is what i like
to think of as a final opacity to them now. And this--if it's not too
grandiose--reminds me of why the mystics talk about the Void as if it
were a positive thing, & not an indication of our mortal inability to com-
prehend. It's "darkness visible"--& requires ostranenie even to indicate.