Suddenly, I have to know everything there is to know about the poet Charles Olson.
While looking for something else, I came across an allusion to Alfred North Whitehead's influence on Olson. Whitehead's is the philosophy that more and more has me in its grip--fused with my idiosyncratic neo-Marxism in a way that I can't quite articulate. 'Cor I haven't been acceptable to other Marxists as One of Them for a long time--but that's okay, since I have but little doubt but that *my* understanding is the absolutely correct version. {Throw in a little Taoism, Mayahana (sp?) Buddhism & Adoptionist Christianity (univeralist version) and there you have my worldview--well simpler than much of the stuff they brew at Starbuck's}. (No offense intended, Mary P.)
Speaking of Buddhism--my FB friend Pat Hartman turned me on to John Burdett's series of mysteries set in Thailand. Quite shocking stuff. I don't know how Thai people would regard Burdett's view of the Thai (he speaks through the persona of a half-westernized Thai policeman) but it has the feel of authenticity.
R.
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