indeed. I enjoy a good bit of give-and-take, a bit of biff.
heh, a "bit of biff": an excellent phrase. I expect that to turn up in
my poems any day now. Unattributed, of course. Sorry, Caleb(^_^)
roger
On 6/9/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I don't know. I always thought a bit of biff was healthy. Probably some
> Antipodean foolishness, seeing as our art is so much lesser...
>
> Caleb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Joseph Duemer
> Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2007 10:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Note
>
> Alison Croggon has just signed off Poetryetc. Presumably everyone saw
> her
> farewell message. I would simply note that over the last 24 hours Alison
> insulted the entire list membership three times:
>
> 1. "I thought it was a given that no opinion rehearsed here has the
> imprimatur of Divine Right. I only claim my own sensibility. I have
> reasons
> for thinking as I do, and if questioned I will tell you what those
> reasons
> are. I thought that this process was known as "discussion"; and
> certainly
> during the many years I ran this list, it was described as a "discussion
> list". Perhaps things have changed while I was looking elsewhere."
>
> This came in as a response to an utterly inoffensive post that happened
> to
> take issue with something Alison had written.
>
> 2. "Slumbrous"
>
> That is Alison's characterization, just now, of this lively, interesting
> &
> unwieldy amalgam of personalities.
>
> 3. "[Poetryetc] seems to have become so closed."
>
> I hadn't noticed this new uptight & closed Poetryetc myself. Had you?
>
> To Alison's friends & admirers, I would say that I am sorry it came to
> this,
> but personally I found her bullying, hectoring style of argumentation,
> in
> which she simply waved away those who disagreed with her & then changed
> the
> subject or repeated what she had already said (at greater length)
> tiresome.
> I have seldom run across a more humorless personality online. I think
> she
> regretted giving up ownership of the list. I do not regret her decision
> to
> leave.
>
> Joseph Duemer
> Poetryetc Co-Mgr.
>
>
>
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