I mentioned discourse down a page or 2, and that's the wrong word: sucked in again. it's not discourse in a listserv, or blog badminton, or comments box. it looks like discourse, and sometimes participants think it is discourse, but discourse it aint. I don't need it in a serious way, only in the way grease fires sure burn fascinatingly bright (James Baldwin had the line, somewhere: the lurid brightness of a burning witch). it is some token of life, of seriousness, of whether or not. I mean oh my gawd, Blackwood's or whatever totally killed poor Johnny Keats!!! and Higginson made Dickinson totally renounce that part. attempts at convincing remind us of the other world.