On 28 Aug 2003 at 5:45, Scott Smithson wrote:
> Marcus - however, a case can be made that a critic of poems who
> cannot phrase his critique in a non-abusive way has no business
> calling himself a poet.
Too true, mate; and yet there was nothing in the original quote, or
the context Gary provided in the original quote, that even suggested
that someone was actively trying to wound the delicate plants into
silence; the clear context of the original quote, and the clear
context of the quote of the quote, was "how easy it is" to wound into
silence. It's pretty hard to wound someone into silence, in point of
fact. Writers are damned hard to silence at all, and harder yet to
silence merely by saying something to or about them.
Marcus Bales
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