Negative Capability – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

"Negative Capability is a theory of the poet John Keats, expressed in his letter to George and Thomas Keats dated Sunday, 21 December 1817.

    I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, on various subjects; several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously – I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason

Keats believed that great people (especially poets) have the ability to accept that not everything can be resolved."

For days my DSL has been vexing me, cutting out a few times an hour! I’ve plugged and replugged and coiled and uncoiled cable. Nothing worked and I almost resorted to calling the help line so that they could tell me nothing was wrong. Until I tried reversing which end of the phone cable goes into the wall jack and which goes into the extender cable that reaches set-up.

And that seems to have worked.

Don’t answer that. Anyway it’s been days since I blogged here, and all I have to say right now is that I am looking forward to seeing my writer’s group friends: Johnzo, Michael, Nisi, Sabrina, Victoria tomorrow afternoon, after too long a summer hiatus!