Mar 26, 2009
Hon. Elwyn Tinklenberg’s 5:30
Tim Geithner proves a cliché,
that poetry is incompatible with
the market, in an unusual way.
He is a planner’s planner, who
like the poet must suppress the
impulse to concretion and
suspend it too. This is a problem,
Geithner says, of what’s called
stigma. What might this mean, if
I say it? He must make the market
more like a poem. He’s forgotten
where he was in his sentence, what
your government was faced with;
he understands scales of skepticism;
knows his own is too huge for the
metaplanning he must do. It just
requires will. It’s not about ability.