I'd hazard, Doug, that if anyone could explain the term then there'd
be no more need for it.
The biologists say that genetically we are nearly identical
individuals. It's in the space between 'nearly' and 'identical' that
things like poetry happen.
2008/5/9 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> Some might argue that that's about as close to a definition as we can come,
> Dave.
>
> I mean, do any of us really know how to 'explain' the term?
>
> Doug
> On 8-May-08, at 11:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> So the statement means 'something we cannot explain or agree upon a
>> definition of deducts itself from the manner and actuality of the
>> reporting of news' and by that statement we define 'something which
>> cannot explain or agree upon' which we call poetry.
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.
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> Sir Kenneth Clark
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