Incorrection / indirection

What is the attraction of the incorrect? as Duncan says "it is towards the old poets we go / towards their wrongness that has style."

This is indeed part of the great attraction that duncan holds for me personally, that he's so flamboyantly grandiosely wrong. Doens't this make it empty rhetoric? I don't think so. And i don't think it makes it wallpaper and fluff, either. so what is the attraction?

science in the last 200 some odd years. it has kept us so alive for so long. it's so good. so why do luddites exist, going towards the old poets? it can't simply be the kind of romantic opposition found in something like that whitman thing "when i heard the learned astronomer" or something. it ain't purely oppositional, subjective vs. objective. because, clearly, more than ever, appeals to subjective, irrational interiority are more prevalent than ever. (ads, politics, the roiling fears of death in a deathless society). so what is it?

bathetix

it has something to do with the in/out dialectic thang.
it has something to do with beauties and sublimities.
it has something to do with emptiness.
it has something to do with tote bags emblazoned with french words