another simic

"Ideological criticism is always stationary. It has its "true position" from which it doesn't budge. It's like insisting that all paintings should be viewed from a distance of ten feet and only ten feet. Many paintings do not fully exist at that distance, of course. Besides, one is never at a single vantage point except intellectually. In life & in art, one is simultaneously in several places at once." Like the time I was listening to a recording of Charles Lloyd playing at the Monterey Jazz Festival, but I was confusing Monterey with Montreaux , so I was hearing him through my French filter and associating him with all the great American expatriots who went to France to play the music Americans did not understand or honor. We were both in three places at that moment, and at this moment I'm in this place and those places. Is Charles Lloyd here with me even though I'm presently listening to Rudresh Mahanthappa? Is Rudresh Mahanthappa in Montreaux and Monterey & in a cottage outside Boston where I was listening to Charles Lloyd at Monterey/Montreaux? And where is Charles Simic now, the guy who got this all started.  Where would the postmodernist deconstructionists stand on this? What about the neo-punk papists and the omnipresent protopaternal god? This is why I'm going to convert to Ideological Criticismism. No more intellectual vertigo for me!