Comments on: Lessons from a Toyota-Master http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2004/03/08/lessons-from-a-toyota-master.php Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:57:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Lorianne http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2004/03/08/lessons-from-a-toyota-master.php/comment-page-1#comment-39 Lorianne Mon, 08 Mar 2004 18:13:52 +0000 http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/?p=36#comment-39 Here's a devil's advocate thought for you... Wordsworth defined poetry as "emotion recollected in tranquility." He believed that you couldn't write about an emotion while you were having it, only *after* you'd weathered & gained some perspective... So I'm wondering this fits with the notion of not having a reverse gear? Maybe he's talking about having a rear-view mirror that allows you to LOOK back w/out GOING back...? This issue is fresh in mind 'cause I'm writing right now about Thoreau's Week on the Concord & Merrimack River & Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It. In both cases, they're writing memories of their brothers YEARS after those brothers have died. I'm not sure that either writer would have written so great a book had they tried to write it in the immediate aftermath. Just a contrary thought--grist for the mill... Here’s a devil’s advocate thought for you… Wordsworth defined poetry as “emotion recollected in tranquility.” He believed that you couldn’t write about an emotion while you were having it, only *after* you’d weathered & gained some perspective…

So I’m wondering this fits with the notion of not having a reverse gear? Maybe he’s talking about having a rear-view mirror that allows you to LOOK back w/out GOING back…?

This issue is fresh in mind ’cause I’m writing right now about Thoreau’s Week on the Concord & Merrimack River & Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It. In both cases, they’re writing memories of their brothers YEARS after those brothers have died. I’m not sure that either writer would have written so great a book had they tried to write it in the immediate aftermath.

Just a contrary thought–grist for the mill…

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