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Knots | R.D. Laing
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JILL You put me in the wrong
JACK I am not putting you in the wrong
JILL You put me in the wrong for thinking you put me in the wrong
JACK Forgive me
JILL No
JACK I'll never forgive you for not forgiving me
In a string of what the Oxford Professor of Poetry called 'remarkable insights into the ways human beings behave to one another' R.D. Laing works out the deadly duologues that silently mar relationship.
Love and hate, good and bad, hoping and fearing, wanting and getting...here are the first elements of the tortuous cat's cradles and the sad little patterns our minds are compelled to repeat.
So simply, so trenchantly stated, that 75,000 copies of Knots were sold in the United States within weeks of publication.
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Knots | R.D. Laing
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"There is something I don't know
that I'm supposed to know.
I don't know what it is I don't know,
and yet I'm supposed to know,
and I feel stupid
if I seem both to not know it
and not know what it is I don't know.
Therefore I pretend to know it.
This is nerve-racking
since I don't know what I must pretend to know.
Therefore I pretend to know everything."

? R. D. Laing

Trashcanman Hi Michael, I hope you‘ve been well. Lozano1830@gmail.com 6d
Bookwomble @Trashcanman George!!! 😃 It's good to hear from you 😊 I have been as well as a curmudgeonly old man can admit to! How've you been? It would be good to see you active on Litsy again 💖 6d
Trashcanman I don‘t think I will be active here again. Although I miss certain people. I don‘t feel like I contribute in any way to this community. I take away from its beauty. You were always nice to me. I always admired you, your intellect, your insight, and most of all your kindness. I don‘t know if you use email, but if you do I‘d love to have a correspondence with you. If not that‘s okay too. Life keeps being life and time keeps moving forward. 5d
Bookwomble @Trashcanman Speaking for myself, I find Litsy an inclusive space, and one where your posts were welcome, and I would find them so again 😊 I'll email you soon 💖 5d
Bookwomble @Trashcanman Just in case it arrives in your junk folder, a quick message to let you know I've sent you an email 😊 5d
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Knots | R.D. Laing
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Psychotherapist R. D. Laing's poems are distillations of the emotional and psychological knots into which people tie themselves as their relationships entangle. I think I may like these 🧶❤️‍🩹🪢