Doug
I like 'wit', a quality I rarely get accused of, and am now feeling as much
bewideredly neo-Augustan as deliquescent or delinquent Metaphysical.
cheers
david b
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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: Likeness is all
> david bircumshaw asks:
> >So my question about my presumed poem is: are the violations of physical
> >logic that its non-representational comparisons take justified? And, if
so,
> >why?
>
> Yup, but I'm not sure there's any single or simple answer as to why. They
> make for a kind of wit, & they challenge. That's fine by me...
>
> Doug
>
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