On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:52:01 +1100, Alison Croggon
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>>THIS IS MY AUTHORITY. My OWN TASTES!
>>In fact, my hyper-baroque must be interpreted in inverse manner. And my
>>woman is a nun, ..a mystic.
>>Today, Trevor, the secret of neo-baroque is that it must be interpreted in
>>inverse manner ..this creates a specific class of baroque and somewhat
>>diabolic literature which is utterly self-referential. In my view and in
my
>>taste, only.
>
>Ah Erminia... your hypocrisies are even more amazing than your
>English! Why, only a matter of months ago you were bashing me for
>some rather more qualified statements about my own poetics, which you
>claimed to be insupportably "egocentric". And in particular,
>attacking me for my statement that I ultimately wrote poetry to
>satisfy my own tastes. And now I find that you are claiming for
>yourself the refuge of your own authority, thus validating my own
>(original) egocentricity. I wish it to be known that I have of
>course patented this idea (Patent No. 9365785 #332, granted 1962) and
>that any transgressions of my international rights will be prosecuted
>vigorously by my numerous publishers. Perhaps you could claim a
>technical defence, ie, that narcissism differs substantively from
>egocentricity; it might work. I look forward with lively interest to
>the court case, which will no doubt set an educational precedent.
>
>Yours
>
>Alison
>--
>
>
>Alison Croggon
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I am not responsible if nature has distributed unfailrly intelligence,
erminia
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