Roger: Yes. But in a richer and more nuanced perplexity, which isn't nothing.
Michael: I understand. I find that the world of poetry and of philosophy are not separate for me. Both reach out into all areas of my life. As Plato saw, neither has a special subject matter. Both touch everything. But I'm not trying to change your mind, or your heart. I just find emotion and feeling even in dry ideas: that aridity isn't the privation of feeling, but a positive feeling all on its own. (Though obscurity need not be aridity, at least not beneath the surface. On the surface, I suppose it often is.)
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