A final point re: belief...
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"what is narrated is immune to disbelief" (if I've got that right) seems
right to me
[but]
why would a poet go for broke with dis/belief? [Candice W]
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I don't think anything is immune to disbelief, just more so or less so. It's
an accommodation issue. The more the narrated world and how it's narrated
seem (potentially) like some part of *our* world, the more even quite odd
material becomes immune to disbelief in a compartmentalised 'My
brother's got some habits I dislike but he's still my brother' sort of way.
Poetry, insofar as it speaks newly or strangely and/or reports a new or
strange reality, not all of it does, resists accommodation to a much greater
extent.
CW
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