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Sunday, 29 May 2011
The Literary Portraits Tradition - The filidhean of Ireland
The Filidh were one of the druidic classes who were hugely influential in pre-Christian Ireland. For Poets, they form a template of courageous rebels who bowed to neither peasant nor king. The source of Filidh power was the will to 'free speech' even if it repulsed the sensitivities of others. Filidh didn't bow to the pressure to be silent. In fact they 'satirised' their targets with grandiose acts that revealed private facts the target would prefer kept secret.
The Poet who has the courage to engage in the Literary Portrait must have that same unbending will of our ancestors, to pursue the uncovering of the nasty truths that if unchallenged would bend the world in ways we can see will bring illness to society or self.
Be strong and publish.
The Poet who has the courage to engage in the Literary Portrait must have that same unbending will of our ancestors, to pursue the uncovering of the nasty truths that if unchallenged would bend the world in ways we can see will bring illness to society or self.
Be strong and publish.
Defamation and Fiction and Poetry - Stealing the Epitaph
Can you defame? Absolutely not.
Can you defame? Absolutely yes.
It isn't a question of legality - because clearly you can't maliciously attack a private citizen. Let the statute of limitations do it for you ... by running out.
Attorney on USA Law- 2011
Sure you can go through the hoops of disguising a person to the point of missing the entire target, which is hardly the artistic goal for a Literary Portrait.
So here's my advice. Do it but don't circulate it! Take your copies, publish them with ISBN's and stick them in the archives at the Library of Congress.
One day in the future some perky literature student will stick it online. And forever your target will be searched on the Internet as the fool they were in life ... not as they wished to be remembered.
It's not revenge if it's the truth.
Can you defame? Absolutely yes.
It isn't a question of legality - because clearly you can't maliciously attack a private citizen. Let the statute of limitations do it for you ... by running out.
Attorney on USA Law- 2011
Sure you can go through the hoops of disguising a person to the point of missing the entire target, which is hardly the artistic goal for a Literary Portrait.
So here's my advice. Do it but don't circulate it! Take your copies, publish them with ISBN's and stick them in the archives at the Library of Congress.
One day in the future some perky literature student will stick it online. And forever your target will be searched on the Internet as the fool they were in life ... not as they wished to be remembered.
It's not revenge if it's the truth.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Why
I'm not an idealogue but a collector of unique experiences, perceptions and warnings. Some people explore locales. I explore roles in life. I want to know what it is to be YOU.
Mountains and lakes exhibit variety. Of what is verifiable today, only human beings are individually unique in a way that we can transfer one another in symbols such as verbal language.
And I assume that you reached the page by accepting the fact that what you expect to read may offend and perhaps disturb you.
Maybe.
But it is at least real. Suspend judgment and open to the new. Let the collision of opposites pry you open
Mountains and lakes exhibit variety. Of what is verifiable today, only human beings are individually unique in a way that we can transfer one another in symbols such as verbal language.
And I assume that you reached the page by accepting the fact that what you expect to read may offend and perhaps disturb you.
Maybe.
But it is at least real. Suspend judgment and open to the new. Let the collision of opposites pry you open
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