In formal systems & things resembling formal systems (science, pronouncements of Correct Truth) you're not supposed to contradict yourself
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But in good poetry one contradicts oneself all the time (I'm not talking about Whitman)
The contradictions represent *time* and *mental processes* which can theoretically be represented in formal systems, but not so densely
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@vgr your thing contradicts itself well (repeating you can't exit history, then ways people exit history)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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laws are timeless. Poetry is not
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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