From: fshck@UMAC on 22/02/2001 11:56 AM
and that page, pistika, is the last page of the gospel of John - everything
Jesus did couldn't fit in all the books that could be written ...
for which i think there is a nice comeback - prophetic for scribblers in the age
of global warming - in the Koran - Sura 31 - Lokman
words to the effect that if every tree in the world were a pen you still
wouldn't get down all God had to say
onwards to the Library of Babel!
as to the pretty chase on which kominos is leading us
let me say that i have been led to believe that
short and thick does the trick
Christopher Kelen,
English Dept, University of Macau.
Taipa, Macau SAR, CHINA
Subject: Re: The epic: pros and cons
A great epic should take forever in its creation and
telling...maybe...and a one-page epic could be possible (one page can
be eternity - one line of poem that inhabits every moment in time)?
I did a paper "Poetry and Star Trek" some years ago, where I pointed
out the parallels in subject and composition between the various Star
Trek permutations and the Iliad and Odyssey...
Also that our great poetry may not be poems at all and where that
leaves poems...
Steve KK
At 12:20 PM +1300 22/2/2001, Wystan Curnow (FOA ENG wrote:
> what you mean Steve? That length ain't a defining attribute of
>an epic? Who was it suggested HOWL, surely too short? I suggested length had
>weight? weight equates with what? ambition,
>comprehensiveness, commitment, absorption, extension, plenitude ...)
>what makes length interesting for a writer, and brevity boring?
> Wystan
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>how long is a piece of string?
>Steve KK
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>At 10:11 AM +1000 21/2/2001, Komninos Zervos wrote:
>>how long is an epic?
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