Bronk's idea that the Mayans possessed a totally different world-view, not just different, but incommensurable, incomparable with the Western view. As though they were Martians or cats (he actually uses the idea of cats in one poem). I don't doubt that there is a difference, but should this difference be conceived of as metaphysical, or more or less circumstantial? My doubt about ethno-poetics: are shamanistic rituals more profound than Prespyterian? I am skeptical of the ethnographic sublime, because it seems to impoverish our imaginations of ourselves. Life is elsewhere.