Aphorism Of The Day

I

What makes Rod Smith unique and interesting against the backdrop of Bernstein and Andrews is not any formal innovation or technique, but that he's more interested in parole than langue, both literally and metaphorically.

II

What makes Langpo amazingly important and different than futurism or any earlier innovative literature [except for Stein?] is not any formal innovation or technique [except for The New Sentence? the rest was already there since the beginning of the century] but being more interested in langue than parole [both literally and metaphorically], for nearly the first time in all literary history. It's an incomparable break in the art, a rift as deep as romanticism or modernism.

But as the Austrian philosopher said in a different context: "I can understand how someone can admire that and call it *supreme* art, but I don't like it". So I'll read Rod Smith over any first-gen Langpo anytime.