Your version is different, and although lively, infeasible.
As I continued to muse on this notion, it came to me that "We" could
do it all heteronymically. Indeed, we would be doing, sucessfully,
something akin [but larger, with more significance IMHO] to what Kent
seemed to have thought he was doing with the Debrot jape. Here, the
grift is known to all of us. We would be grifting the grifters, in a
sense [although we would be funding the project 45 each]. The beauty
of this idea is that we would become famous and the weird thing of it
is that we would be fulfilling the stated ambition of whoever it is
that started this strange Anthology of the World's 100 Greatest
Poets. Admittedly, any of us is quite capable of stealing my idea
and popping for the entire 4500 and then projecting 100 fictionalized
poets into the literary pantheon. A surrealistic event would have
occured to rent the world but many attendant synergies would go
untapped. No, I prefer my first idea. It's all for all and all for
all in this good scheme.
>I'll go you one better, Richard. How about WE just cut them
>out of the loop and do it without them?
>
>gauntlet throwing
>josephine
>(dont you just love a challenge?)
>
>
>Richard Dillon wrote:
>>
>> "WE" could commandeer the _100 Greatest Poets Anthology_. We each
>> chip in our 45 and then "own" the anthology. It'd be funn.
>> Distributed internationally, it gets around. The actual volume is as
>> large as a Webster Dictionary, but, to my memory, it is light, made
>> of weightless paper, puffed up, like Wonder Bread.
>>
>> They also issue a CD, hire an actor to recite all of the poems.
>> Think on it. Our works, together, unified by one voice. James Earl
>> Jones. Is Shirley Bassey still alive? Robert Goulet. If we could
>> get Christina Amanpour, it would be a coup of the first order.
>>
>> There's one of them at City Books giveaway bin now. Anybody want it?
>>
>> >Well I notice that the bulk of the letter is actually on the Web at:
>> >
>> >http://www.fondsvoordeletteren.nl/aktueel/brief.html
>> >
>> >
>> >I doubt if you should feel any embarrassment, Alison - if D Popa
>>is genuine
>> >then he's a genuine shyster I'd say.
>> >
>> >Best
>> >
>> >Dave
>> >
>> >
>> >David Bircumshaw
>> >
>> >Leicester, England
>> >
>> >Home Page
>> >
>> >A Chide's Alphabet
>> >
>> >Painting Without Numbers
>> >
>> >http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
>> >----- Original Message -----
>> >From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:18 AM
>> >Subject: Re: Extraordinary!
>> >
>> >
>> >As an addendum to my nastiness, I did a google search. The Sydney
>> >committee included all sorts of respectable people, including Ron
>> >Pretty, and so far as I can see, Dorin Popa is genuine and the next
>> >World Congress is to be held in Romania. So I might have thoroughly
>> >embarrassed myself!
>> >
>> >Ah well, not for the first time -
>> >
>> >Best
>> >
>> >A
>> >
>> >--
>> >
>> >
>> >Alison Croggon
>> >
>> >Home page
>> >http://www.users.bigpond.com/acroggon/
> > >
> > >Masthead online
> > >http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
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