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- From: gorokho1@husc10.harvard.edu (Zhenya Gorokhovsky)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT (was: Re: Critical Comments and a Bonfire Carol (was: Re: STORM))
- Message-ID: <GOROKHO1.93Jan1195549@husc10.harvard.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 00:55:49 GMT
- References: <GOROKHO1.92Dec25042622@husc10.harvard.edu><NIKOLAY.92Dec30213549@husc10.harvard.edu> <6829@npri6.npri.com>
- Organization: Physicists for Poetry
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- eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams) writes:
-
- > In article <NIKOLAY.92Dec30213549@husc10.harvard.edu>,
- > nikolay@husc10.harvard.edu (Philip Nikolayev) writes: [two really
- > good poems in one package deleted]
-
- > There, now, was that so difficult? In this message you have amply
- > illustrated what you consider to be good poetry, and you've supplied
- > verses born of your literary brainpan. (We suspect they were all
- > your own, but if Zhenya is out there, I telegraph my fiercest
- > apologies.) Please don't abandon enlightenment-by-example.
-
- Yeah, Eric, I'm out here, but there's no need for any apology on your
- part. It's time to announce what many must have already guessed anyway
- (incidentally, Tom Watchel was one of the first). So here goes:
- the three poems posted here from my account in the last several
- weeks, namely, "Purgatory," "Computer Games," and "Storm," indeed
- all belong to Philip Nikolayev. I don't write poetry myself, I just
- happen to be Philip's dorm roommate. The initial idea to play this
- transparent trick was mine; Philip's first reaction to it was one of
- vague reluctance, but since he hadn't expressed his instant, explicit
- and vigorous lack of consent (you can imagine what *that* would have
- sounded like), I decided to go ahead and post "Purgatory." Naturally,
- what I didn't expect to see here the next day was Philip's own rude
- and scathing criticism of the poem, which included a vehement diatribe
- against rhyme in modern poetry! However, I was beginning to get used
- to this pattern after I'd posted "Computer Games" (this time Philip
- was even more ruthless), only to find myself perplexed again when he
- posted a staunch defense of "Storm," complete with an "incineratory"
- ditty. Anyway, three is enough, and now the truth hath been revealed.
- I feel somewhat awkward about having received email expressions of
- approval and sympathy - I really had no intention of fooling anyone
- personally, but the show had to go on. My apologies to anyone who
- feels offended; but I had intended to make this revelation at some
- point anyway.
-
- Happy New Year! (Philip, you owe me a beer.)
-
- Zhenya
-