Spicer, I think, said that the poets thought they were pitchers when in
effect they were only catchers.
Pierre
On Apr 7, 2005, at 7:07 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> { I'm an atheist, which means that god is an expletive. Expletives
> are
> { genderless and impartial. Spicer famously claimed that god is a
> baseball,
> { but he may have been joking.
>
> Methinks he was a slider--or maybe a knuckleball.
>
> Hal "Poetic statements are no more actual statements
> than the peaches visible in a still life are actual
> dessert."
> --Susanne K. Langer
>
> Halvard Johnson
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