I take your point, Martin, but maybe poetry, instead of
fitting between them, includes them both.
Hal
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On Oct 14, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Martin Dolan wrote:
> Hal
>
> I agree that neither is innately pejorative - though I have heard
> both given with face-distorting sneers - but they do seem opposed,
> if not contradictory. It may sound like I'm quibbling, but it seems
> that the question of where poetry fits between them is an important
> one. Perhaps some synthesis not yet in the lexicon?
>
> Regards
>
> Martin
>
> Halvard Johnson wrote:
>> In my lexicon "primitive" and "sophisticated"
>> are not contradictory. And neither is pejorative,
>> unless said with a sneer.
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