Cracking site, Cris - thank you. Some of the notes are especially good - if
anyone hasn't yet checked it all out, I recommend "page me later" as a gem
of both amusement & poignancy.
BTW, Cris, it wasn't actually you I was meaning in my jibe about prolixity -
but if the cap fits... ;-)
I read something somewhere in a review recently about certain poets'
amazing ability just to <ital>go on </ital> and I'm afraid that is very
true of a number I could (but won't) name.
It may or may not be true that gems can occur in piles of ordure: it seems
on the face of it unlikely, but even if they do, who is going to spend the
time sifting through the heap to find out? This is not to say, of course,
that small poems are inevitably any more jewel-like - and I have yet to be
convinced that any process short of alchemy is capable of compressing human
waste into shining brilliance.
(These stray thoughts, be it noted, are just off-the-top-o-me-head and not
intended as a criticism or critique of any individual).
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