Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 23:38:04 EDT From: "I'll have a tink salad, please?" Subject: TECH: Burke Bits (1) Since I have recently been relaxing with Kenneth Burke, and have made some notes which may contribute their own tangency (no, that's tanginess...zest, flavor, saviour...something like that at lease... well, let's get on with the tossing, okay?) Some Bits for the Salad (p. 10) "A poet's identification with imagery...is...merely a concern with _terms for transformation in general._" "When considering transformation in general, we may stress the respects in which many different kinds of image can perform the same function." (p. 12) "The range of images that can be used for concretizing the process of transformation is limited only by the imagination and ingenuity of poets. But the selective nature of existence favors some images above others--and high among them, naturally, is the imagery of Life and Death, with its variants of being born, being reborn, dying, killing, and being killed." "For the so-called 'desire to kill' a certain person is much more properly analyzable as a desire to _transform the principle_ which that person _represents._" from A Rhetoric of Motives Kenneth Burke University of California Press 1969 I can feel the celery snap, I can taste the dressing now... lettuce ahead, croutons all around, and mashed sardines at base: words tossed everywhich way! tink