who said if there is no god man must need to invent one?
coming from the proletariat myself my concern is not at the division of labor and those who profit mightily from labor, but a kind of professionalism of reading/writing that exists now. po-biz, its forms of bureaucracy created by grant committees, prizes, book contests etc. have infected the call to writing/reading. because I do think the call, the need, not simply the desire, but the need to write/read is a religious manifestation.
but one without any gods, because we create it as we move thru our living in the art. tho we pray, in our readings, our studies, our writings everyday we live and think. a secular religion, a contradiction indeed, but so much of our lives, every aspect of our lives I'd hazard to say, contradicts every other aspect of our lives. Je est une autre . .
and but so, I love knowing that poet X works as a janitor, or has taught freshman comp. the many varied working lives of writing, and not one stuck in academe because that is what is expected of writers.
reading/writing, for me, is not about suffering, tho the writer who ignores human suffering, anguish, horror, whether in writing or living, is naive at best or at worst pretty seriously silly. writing/reading affords me the greatest pleasures I know. as a human being. etc. etc. it is one of the forces that drives the green fuse thru the flower.
