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Roger Day wrote:
> narr == fool in german
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> On 4/1/07, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Nar-Danish -fool
>> P
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Peter Cudmore
>> Sent: 01 April 2007 17:10
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Poetry subsidies proposed
>>
>> Presumably in some language Narr either means 'first' or 'fool', eh?
>>
>> P
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Corelis
>> > Sent: 01 April 2007 16:21
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Poetry subsidies proposed
>> >
>> > I thought people in this group might be interested in this:
>> >
>> >
>> > ----------------------
>> >
>> >
>> > FEDERAL POETRY SUBSIDIES PROPOSED
>> >
>> > Washington, D. C. (CNS) -
>> >
>> > In a surprise move, the Bush Administration has announced
>> > that it will propose legislation in Congress to subsidize the
>> > production of verse by American poets.
>> >
>> > The program, which will be modeled on the longstanding
>> > federal agricultural price support program, will be designed
>> > to ensure a market at a basic price support level for the
>> > nation's poetry output.
>> >
>> > According to administration spokeswoman April Narr, a goal of
>> > the subsidies will be to ensure the continuing production of
>> > particular types of verse for which the market is currently
>> > weak. "For instance," she said at a news conference this
>> > morning, "not too many people write sonnets or heroic
>> > couplets any more, so those types of verse would be eligible
>> > for special price supports."
>> >
>> > Narr also said in response to questions that although the
>> > details have yet to be worked out, subject matter may also be
>> > taken into account to determine the price support levels of
>> > different types of poems. "There are plenty poems being
>> > written about having an affair or traveling in Europe or
>> > watching your child grow up," she said, "so that sort of
>> > poetry probably needs less subsidy. But poems about junk
>> > yards or shaving cream or peeling an orange are more rare and
>> > may be deserving of more price support."
>> >
>> > When questioned as to whether the public will accept a
>> > government program which channels taxpayers' dollars to
>> > poets, Narr replied, "It's really not such an unusual idea
>> > when you think of it. After all, if the federal government
>> > can pay farmers to produce soybeans, why can't it pay poets
>> > to produce sonnets?"
>> >
>> > --
>> > ===================================
>> >
>> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
>> >
>> > ===================================
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