From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>


> Hrm.  This is dull.  Myself, I'm not sure that said deception - only
> acknowledged as "transparent" after its outing and certainly not
> transparent to all list members - does anything to "lessen old
> rancours".  Has dishonesty ever had that effect?
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> The point about Snaps still stands.

The sneaky thingness of the event is so muddled that it stinks. The said
person has indirectly asked some time ago to join the list
because of the inside support of someone else, the request received a
negative answer by all, and now the same said person forces his way through
by exploiting the good feelings around and impudently points his finger
directly to those who do not wish to be mixed in this -too well known-
wretchedness again. The manipulative event planned behind our backs, the
choice of a name in which Alison is involved (so that Alison cannot speak
out because set back by a previous writing), the gratuitous obstinacy behind
the act, the playing in time between the known and the unknown with people
who are distant and ingeniously share poems___ but most of all are blind to
what is happening, show a character and a mind (deeply rotten if not mean)
on the borderline with vicious and calculating tendencies with whom I have
no wish to mingle. From my side any -be it minimal- emotional fringe still
alive toward the said person, has by now been completely frozen.
I would also like to remind that the figure of the Poet __VATE___ by all
means, was not that of someone who could use words properly, that was an
orator/seller, or better a politician, but of the one who could SEE through
things and events for the good of the community (please not statistics, for
those we have excellent journalists who kill themselves and the other
journalists to have them published). Yes, we praised that Pre-Socratic poem,
but that is it. The last composition was between bad and mediocre as the
majority of the works by the said. The SPARKLE needed to turn a plain
writing or an interested little speech into poetry comes out from much more
than a limited part-time night shift performed for a couple of weeks. There
are people here who work their asses off regularly every single day
and/or night, and have for their entire life. And do write poetry. And they
succeed much better than the said person who has all day to read and do
whatever he wishes. This said his life or education is no more of my
concern.

Anny Ballardini

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