The First Function Of Violence In Native

Drop A Word In The Ocean Of Meaning And Concentric Ripples Form. To Define A Single Word Means To Try To Catch Those Ripples. No One’s Hands Are Fast Enough.

To Design Things Means To Interfere With Things: To Think Of How They Might Be And To Alter How They Are. Design Is To Making As Writing Is To Speech: It Is An Ordinary Physical Activity Pushed To A Conscious Edge. That Interference With The Given World Can Still Be Founded On Admiration. Where It Is Not, What Is The Point Of Designing At All?

It Isn't So Unusual For Poems To Situate Themselves Out Of Doors - Though They May, At The Same Time, Be Set In An Interior World: Not Inside The House But Inside The Mind And Body Of Writer And Reader.

My Own View Is That Violence Is A Part Of Classical Haida Literature - And Of Every Mythology Everywhere, So Far As I Can Tell - Because It's Part Of Life Itself. In The World Of The Hamburger Stand And The Supermarket, Or The Vegan Café And The Ashram, You Might Try To Tell Yourself It's Possible To Be Nonviolent. In A Hunting And Gathering Society, Violence Is More Difficult To Hide.

With Type As With Philosophy, Music And Food, It Is Better To Have A Little Of The Best Than To Be Swamped With The Derivative, The Careless, The Routine.