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sta tement. The few numbers Drucker p resents ho pelessly mi x up
va ri o us ca tegori es, and I think it quite clear tha t pension fund s will
never own the bu lk of corpo ra te stocks. Once tha t sweepin g genera liza–
ti on is out of the way, however, Drucker makes a la rge number of very
acute, if un systema ti c, sta temen ts abo ut th e evo lution of the p roperty
concept in large corpora ti on s, th e effect of hav ing a substanti al
proportion of in ves tibl e resources limited to rela ti vely safe fo rms of
inves tment, and the aging demographi c structure.
KENNETH J. ARROW
LIFE WITHOUT POETRY
THE INNERWORLD OF THE OUTERWORLD OF THE INNERWORLD.
By
Peter Handke.
The Seabury Press. A Continuum Book. $8.95.
NONSENSE AND HAPPINESS.
By
Peter Handke.
U rizen Books. $3.95.
Reading Peter Handke's poetry is like hav in g a ro bber with
a sen se of slapsti ck tear across your mind.
In
no time, he ransacks
language and logic and , as he races o ut the door, he turn s, winks, and
call s back,
"Now .
..
wha t do you thin k?"
Things will never be quite the same aga in , and even if you manage
to reconstruct the famili a r pieces of language, they will a lways show
scars from the ca tas trophe. Of course, a ll poetry fo rces a transfi gure–
men t of the conventi onal contours of experience; wha t makes Ha ndke's
poetry unu sua l is tha t he shapes thi s transfi gurement by using the
langu age of logical di scourse a t the same time he is assaulting it.
Handke begui les the intell ect onl y to turn it aga in st itself. H e uses
