From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> Can we please drop the self-help stick? This is a poetry list, and besides
> it's offensive.
>
> And for god's sake, "petcies?"
>
> Mark
I rather like it, Mark -- on the analogy of "The City of Poets" mirroring
Augustine's City of God.
And whoever uses the full "poetryetc" title? Takes too long to type. Me, I
say petc, and nobody's chopped me down for that.
Yet.
but ...
And as for heteronyms and false identities...
What about that spotty eighteen year old adolescent called Patrick McManus
pretending to be a refugee from the Boer War wielding his poisoned
zimmerframe?
Get real, loosen up, hang free -- or have I missed something?
To be mildly serious, a *bit* of where petc is at is playing identity games,
and the background of this general mush is that we all tend to know each
other well enough that it's damn difficult to slip a false identity into the
mix.
Happened once, if anyone remembers, Way Back When, and *that* involved
closing the list for a bit till the delousing squad cleaned it up.
:-(
Dunno why everyone is getting so het up over Judy, if they are.
But what would I know?
I'm bopping into the middle of this thread between Florence and Cambridge so
I prolly am making even less sense than usual.
An Identity-Challenged Haggis
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