
Composition of Life, as Life: A discussion of Joan Retallack’s The Poethical Wager (a several-page excerpt)
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Is There a Difference Between the Arts and Ethics?
In relation to the arts, an ethos is something that each of us has to compose or ourselves. A being told what you must do, for reasons that you may not agree with, but must comply with, is has nothing to do with ethics. It has to do with rules given by some one who has too much power, and and it's problematic,. I mean, i think they are at opposite ends of not even the same spectrum, actually. They haveNothing to do with each other. And in writing, this translates into the the opposite of a predictable trajectory must be a dubious prototype of a difficult process. That's, that is the alternative, ok? So what we're going
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