11/9

In Jackson Maclow’s “Poetry and Pleasure”, he says that “the entire individual self is considered to be kind of a temporary illusion consisting of five continually changing “baskets” of sensations, impulses, perceptions, emotions and thoughts to simplify the matter grossly.” I feel like this relates too many of the works we have read previously that are simplified to their simplest form. In our very early works there was a lot of gibberish writing so we had to use our impulses and perceptions to try and grasp a meaning of the work. In much more recent work, such as Fernandez’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel, we are brought into the book as one of the characters and through playing with our perceptions, emotions and select ideas we have to create what we perceive ourselves to be in the novel as well as the other characters whether they are truly characters or not.