Came home from a nice weekend on the water yesterday, logged onto YBW with a question and read the top few threads. Frankly it brought me down a bit. I find posts and threads that are aimed purely at personally attacking people so frustrating. It's depressing that the problem even exists amongst adults. Why the hell can't people debunk people's facts & opinions and leave individuals alone. Don't they realize how little value a personal attack has and how annoying they are for many readers?
On the plus side the large number of readers means YBW is still often a good source of information. (Although nobody's been able to tell me what Sander's up to yet.)
Moderation Is Not a Negation of Intensity, But Helps Avoid Monotony
Will you stop for a while, stop trying to pull yourself
together
for some clear "meaning" - some momentary summary?
no one
can have poetry or dances, prayers or climaxes all day;
the ordinary
blankness of little dramatic consciousness is good for the
health sometimes,
only Dostoevsky can be Dostoevskian at such long
long tumultuous stretches;
look what that intensity did to poor great Van Gogh!;
linger, lunge,
scrounge and be stupid, that doesn't take much centering
of one's forces;
as wise Whitman said "lounge and invite the soul." Get
enough sleep;
and not only because (as Cocteau said) "poetry is the
literature of sleep";
be a dumb bell for a few minutes at least; we don't want
Sunday church bells
ringing constantly.
No, I fully understand that. It's just a personal observation. You asked the question, that's my take. It may, or may not be something that others feel.
It didn't bother me, clearly, as I've always loved the place, anyway, and the waters up there.
Aye but you've been barred from the other place - or at least that's what everyone seems to think despite Neil et al insisting that it's not so.
I can confirm that I have not been banned from anywhere (recently).
To be fair, I never made any flouncy statements of departure, nor will I make any fanfare on return.
As actors might say, I'm resting.
