fshck@UMAC
20/01/2001 07:30 PM
yes indeed
and
doesn't that remind you of that Emily Dickinson poem?
I like a look of agony,
Because I know it's true;
Men do not sham convulsion,
Nor simulate a throe.
Christopher Kelen,
English Dept, University of Macau,
Taipa, Macau SAR, China
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Also hard to fake -
real heartlessness
real ruthlessness
real bitchiness
real brutality
Gillian
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david.bircumshaw wrote:
>
> > These poems are tendentious, smug, and prosaic.
>
> I have a suspicious mind, when I'm not being gullible, and tended to think
> they were parodies.
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> Or hoped so.
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> db
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> -
Doubt it. Real vapidity is hard to fake.
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