I think I should add that my comment was merely personal out of a momentary
situation, I did not read the messages that brought to David's mail, and
what I said was a general vision of the situation of what David had
previously posted.
What Rebecca says of mercy and forgiveness makes sense to me,
and what David says of poverty and poetry also makes sense to me.
This is all, take care you all, anny
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Shrinking Shakespeare, and other provocations
> Hi Anny
>
> >hi david, poor are poor and that's how they will be forever<
>
>
> well, not really, some poor people make it through and become relatively
or
> even extremely wealthy, for instance. Your phrase has echoes of the
Biblical
> 'the poor shall always be with ye' which, despite my tendencies to
> pessimism, I do not accept as a necessary truth. But what I was talking
> about was the leaning towards domination in human relationships, which
> happens across the divides of class, wealth, gender, etc etc.
>
> Sorry about any delays in this response, but in my new-found status as The
> Prisoner of Poetry Etc I can't reply in real-time front-channel even if I
> want to.
>
> When I set out writing I always imagined literature as a place of
innocence,
> I never realised just how much goes on behind the scenes, that's why I
keep
> thinking about abandoning poetry altogether, I had no idea what it's
really
> like, I was naive enough to think that all that mattered was whether you
> write well or not, I realise now it isn't so, not that I'm saying that all
> established poets are crap, some are extremely good, but what goes on,
well,
> I dunno .....
>
>
> Best
>
> Dave
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