In formal systems & things resembling formal systems (science, pronouncements of Correct Truth) you're not supposed to contradict yourself
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Replying to @literalbanana
But in good poetry one contradicts oneself all the time (I'm not talking about Whitman)
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Replying to @literalbanana
do you have an example of such a poem? I'm not sure if i know what you mean.
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Replying to @arslibertatis
there's a really great example by a woman poet from the 90s and I can't remember it well enough to google :/
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Replying to @literalbanana @arslibertatis
she says "The only rule is, [something]" then later "The only rule is, [something else]"
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Replying to @literalbanana @arslibertatis
Proofs by contradiction look a lot like this.
9:34 AM - 16 Nov 2016
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