Jon Corelis wrote:
> It also makes me reflect that up to a half century ago many poets had
>killed in their time because many men had killed in their time.
>Consider the patrons, aged twenty to seventy five, of a typical London
>local pub or New York corner bar circa 1955. Do the math about when the
>previous wars were, and you can see that a substantial segment of the
>company must at some point have zipped some one. Having killed whether
>you were a poet or not was something much more common then than now.
This statement a little problematic for us nurturing poetess types
suffering from bayonet envy. Known to have existed before the 1970s.
Its blithe myopia reminds me a little of a story Robert Graves told of
his Greek teacher at university. He asked him if Sappho was as good as
everyone said. The teacher dropped his voice to a conspiratorial whisper
and said: "Yes, Graves, that's the problem. She's very, _very_ good."
Best
Alison
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