Nam June Paik says that eye candy joins the elite and popular cultures. But when the video cement hardens, poetry's rhetorical factory closes. The elite and popular cultures are joined like oil and blue water. As the rhetorical factory closes, poetry becomes voice-over narration. A story to tell but no telling.
Poetry becomes voice-over narration.
We get a movie from the slasher section. A story to tell about decaying gracefully, thank you. The movies in the slasher section are pure fiction, except in this country. We're pure fiction in this country, where a perfect knowledge of grammar might as well be a trembling prairie. Playing classical music in a boom car, we have perfect knowledge of grammar, no story to tell but a way of telling.