Tag Archives: Dialogue

When I read this passage from William Matthews’s contribtution to Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms I was put in mind of the French verb “tâtonner” and its cousin “tâter”. Of course the preceding paragraph is written with hindsight, rather than with … Continue reading →

Some notes triggered by Geoffrey Rockwell’s A Unity of Voices: A Definition of Philosophical Dialogue The successful dialogue, the one that teaches, is judged to be the one that brings the reader close to identifying with the humiliated (the respondent) … Continue reading →

Robert Duncan meets bp Nichol low dawn        high moon load on            off load low down        up lift And so for day 33 16.01.2007