>poetry = "frivolous and culturally divisive"
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>isn't that why we do it?
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>Cheers,
>Jill
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> on 21/10/00 12:20 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> frivolous and culturally divisive
Not that I'd deny the possibility, Jill, but I don't think I 'wrote' that,
although I probably quoted it from a previous post...
On the other hand, hearing what these young people are for, I am not quite
so upset about what they are against, even if many young people I have come
across aare still interested in the written word, & in many cases have to
be pulled away from precisey the traditional conventions the particular
young people revolting in Brisbane seem to be against...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I have taken the library
Volumes might be written
ambiguous signs by name
Susan Howe
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