I understand. At the same time, the construction of *some* sort of public
or social dimension is almost essential. There's a sadness to complete
isolation too. Or maybe, like the contests etc, intense loneliness is both
comic and sad.
Mairead
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Peter Riley wrote:
>
> I don't actually find any of it amusing, except the word Champion, but if
> anything rather sad.It's some kind of market, some profit-making exercise,
> concealed behind a lot of hype, and rather sadly people are taken in by it,
> and believe that real experts have recognised their worth. It goes on
> everywhere: poetry competitions, awards, magazine editing, invitations to
> avant-garde conferences.....
>
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> /Peter
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