It’s in the Details

I prefer the thoughtful to the logical,
Like a friend on a rainy day
Rather than blah blah blah blah –

but I don’t think they are mutually exclusive –
never thought anything really excluded anything else,
even a middle in a syllogism gone wild;

as can trivially be said of many an abstraction:
‘men can be good’
‘liberty is like love’
etcetera etcetera etcetera

sans the particulars of experience,
not much is worth talking about
for very long.

This one reminds of Super Tramp's "Logical Song". Thanks for jogging my memory.

Les

I believe very much that it's in the details, Peter, but it would seem you're saying the opposite with this? I'll take a friend on a rainy day any day...even if all they have to say is blah blah blah blah .

Marty

A friend on a rainy day is thoughtful for me, Mary. He or she is the particular.

The merely logical is for me no more than 'Blah blah blah blah.'

The first is the particular detail of the poem. The opposite is the abstractions of the third paragraph.

avanti,

Peter

I can't agree with the last verse at all, Peter. How is one to learn if all that is worth talking about is that which has already been experienced?

Joe

The last verse is an expression of my disinterest in conversations on topics with people who have not direct experience with what they are talking about...and with abstraction as such. Even as a generalization itself it is set in the context of the prior stanzas and not meant as a universal, even if it might sound like one.

Thanks for stopping in, Joe. I do value your input.

amo et avanti,

Peter