Thank you, Alison -- I didn't mean it in any malicious way -- but the
responsibility is still mine.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 7:19 AM
Subject: Re: Early Snap - Famous
> Well, I should have kept my own mouth shut.
>
> For my part, I honestly didn't think Tad's posting of the poem to be
> malicious, and I'm sorry it's been taken that way.
>
> On 2/16/07, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I do apologize. There are lots and lots and lots of canonical poems that
>> I
>> wouldn't recognize -- probably more for me than most of the people on
>> this
>> list.
>>
>> The only thing I can say is that I wasn't attempting to justify anything,
>> because when I posted my second note, I hadn't realized that people had
>> critiqued Auden (and well, I thought). I should have posted this apology
>> sooner.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "MC Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:30 PM
>> Subject: Re: Early Snap - Famous
>>
>>
>> > Alison,
>> >
>> > Are you satisfied by Tad's "justification" of what he
>> > did? Myself, I feel that he should at least apologize
>> > to the list in general--and Anny and Kasper in
>> > particular--for making fools of us/them, if nothing
>> > else.
>> >
>> > I'm very upset by this, and I wonder what Anny and Joe
>> > think.
>> >
>> > Candice
>> >
>> > Let the water wash over your face
>> > I'll send it in waves
>> > Just to see you perform the great escape
>> > (Moby)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --- Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >
>> >> I expect that Moley here didn't realise that people
>> >> wouldn't recognise
>> >> that poem!
>> >>
>> >> And I am, I confess, more than a little surprised.
>> >> Surely one of
>> >> Auden's best known? And that line, "poetry makes
>> >> nothing happen", one
>> >> of his most quoted? Certainly one of my favourites
>> >> of all time. (I'm
>> >> sure that Wystan would appreciate the workshopping;
>> >> that last stanza
>> >> is in my eyes pretty incredible...)
>> >>
>> >> All best
>> >>
>> >> A
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>> >> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>> >> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ____________________________________________________________________________________
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>>
>
>
> --
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> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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