I notice that you've elided the most pertinent part of my email. I
take it then that you have no facts to back up your slander.
Your comments here reflect badly on your performance in the other
thread. No facts. No intellectual rigour. Nothing. Just a little boy
who will do anything to gain attention.
If this is your thing, if this is what defines you, if this is what
pleases you, then I pity you. I feel sorry for you. I truly hope you
find a better way of passing your time upon earth, for the way you've
chosen is mean and nasty and not worth the energy I'm expending in
this email, except that I know you will have hurt people - and a poet
- who I respect and love.
Roger
On 8/5/05, Marcus Bales <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 5 Aug 2005 at 21:13, Roger Day wrote:
> > Oh - puh-leez - this is even more crass than my previous email on this
> > thread (for which I wholeheartedly and publicly apologise btw, bad
> > times and all that). And that's going some. I have a figleaf of an
> > excuse - what's yours?
>
> I need an excuse to point out that the whole point of a scam is to garner
> enough trust so that people will allow themselves to be taken advantage
> of?
>
> If there are poetry scams then naturally one way that they'll try to deflect
> suspicion from their scam is to give awards to people who are not in on
> the scam so that they have a vested interest in the integrity of the
> award. And who among us, having won such an award while pure as
> Caesar's wife, wouldn't say "Hey! Don't disparage that award! I won it
> fair and square!"? The way scammers buy advertising like that is to
> choose someone occasionally to give the award to who has nothing to
> do with them or their scam. The self-interest of that winner, though, is
> automatically vested in the scam, though they are completely innocent
> of the scam, and they naturally defend the award.
>
> And we all want to believe that it could happen to us, don't we? Does
> anyone on this list believe that they would say, if their MS was picked
> out of the slush pile and awarded first place, that they would turn it down
> as undeserved?
>
> Now, let's not always see the same hands.
>
> Marcus
>
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