> somehow perceive Ken and others similar as writing work
that 'communicates' and has 'accessibility'. which virtues they say I lack.
One of the biggest let-downs of my "poetic" life was when I went to
read at an event in Oxford, and was telling people beforehand that the
stuff I was going to read was a bit, er, "difficult", making vague
minatory handwaving gestures in the direction of J. H. Prynne and
generally giving it to be understood that anyone expecting to be
rewarded for listening with the odd shred of sense was likely to be
disappointed, only to have the same people tell me afterwards that
everything I'd read was perfectly intelligible, no trouble at all, and
not in the least like that Impenetrable Prynne I'd been trying to
scare them with.
The lesson I draw from this is that inaccessibility is something you
have to *work* at.
Dominic
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