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U bad, Peter :-)
Judy
From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Araki Yasusada's Letters
"
Is a Smart the same kind of thing as a Bright? I decided that the brights
were the kind of club that, like Groucho, I wouldn't want to belong to.
"
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A Smart (or Bright -- and cf. the distinction between a knave and a fool) is
someone with the nous to take a torch with him when he goes doon tae the
dunny tae visit the cludgie.
Which given the Absolutely Horrible Things that P*t*r C*dm*r* has been
saying about me on New Poetry, on the assumption that I'm off-line at the
moment, I'm not quite sure which I'd characterise him as.
[Moderator -- does this constitute Vulgar Abuse on my part? If so, I
apologise in advance. Retrospect. Whatever.]
A Singularly Insomniac Dormouse.
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> Behalf Of Douglas Barbour
> Sent: 11 June 2005 15:50
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> Subject: Re: Araki Yasusada's Letters
>
> Gee, Dominic, I was just going to say that I hadn't heard
> anything in the last while about this Mack guy, but then I
> saw the 1994 publishing date & realized why (although things
> really haven't improved that much vis-à-vis the intellectual
> climate, I'd have to agree....
>
> I do think, however, that most of the comments on the Yasuda
> phenomenon are by Smarts, & that, whether or not any one of
> us actually finds the book terrific or awful, it's written by
> a Smart too....
>
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