Unfair unfair.
Let the NewPo folk take care o themselves...
As though I'd say anything behind yr back that I widnae tae yr pus ;)
For those who dinnae ken, bright is the term messrs Dawkins and Dennett give
themselves in distinction from superstitious fowk who believe in doG. It's
probably googleable.
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Robin Hamilton
> Sent: 12 June 2005 03:17
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Araki Yasusada's Letters
>
> <<
> 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.
> "
> >>
>
> 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.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
> poetry and
> > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Douglas Barbour
> > Sent: 11 June 2005 15:50
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > 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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