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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!canon.co.uk!wachtel
- From: wachtel@canon.co.uk (Tom Wachtel)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED (Is poetry luxury?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.173535.6842@canon.co.uk>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:35:35 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.144739.866@canon.co.uk> <c0X8TB1w164w@kryton.UUCP>
- Reply-To: wachtel@canon.co.uk
- Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd
- Lines: 36
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- conrad@kryton.UUCP (Konstatin Kalikanzaros) writes:
- > wachtel@canon.co.uk (Tom Wachtel) writes:
- > > > conrad@kryton.UUCP (Konstatin Kalikanzaros) writes:
- > > > wachtel@canon.co.uk (Tom Wachtel) writes:
- > > > > casteley@phil.ruu.nl (Eric Casteleyn) writes:
- > > > >
- > > > > > I recently overheard someone say that poetry is a luxury item. In-
- > > > > > tuitively I disagreed, but I've had some trouble putting together a
- > > > > > definitive article to prove him wrong. Maybe he was right. Maybe I'm
- > > > > if you need an argument
- > > > > the other has won it
- > > > Shear defeatism!
- > > Sheer defeetism? Perhaps I was a touch unclear. I only meant that
- > > arguments are not always necessary for having the courage of ones own
- > > convictions. Poetry, like water, doesn't need justification.
- > If you have the courage of your convictions then defending them should be
- > a piece of cake. Just be sure to make in an argument and not a fight!
- > conrad
-
- it's not about pieces of cake. suppose my conviction is that it is
- silly to argue about whether poetry is a luxury. how (or rather why) to
- make an argument for that? please dont tell me. :)
-
- anyway, it's time we went back to the time-honoured rap tradition of
- 'no comment without verse'. all this talk talk talk is no good.
-
- roll about and here and there
- all in my hot dim dark air
- that blows and blows and comes to blows
- just to say 'i was there!'
- too many rows of prose round here...
-
-
- --
-
- Tom Wachtel (wachtel@canon.co.uk)
-