The *New Granta Book of the American Short Story* is shot through with
errors that a careful proofread would have caught. It is obvious that a
computer did the last edit. Probably a similar problem with Steven's
Selected. The human eye is not obsolete- yet!
Andrew Browne
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> From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:15:46 +0100
> To: John Hall <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Wallace Stevens question
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> From: John Hall <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: John Hall <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:50:17 +0100
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> Subject: Re: Wallace Stevens question
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> Imperative then? Ontological imperative: be!
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> It's a great line.
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> John
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> Yes it is, but is the line that follows it a great line? I first met it
> when I was about 14, and immediately thought "Why on earth did he write
> that?" I don't think I have yet found out.
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> That is to say, I've know at least since I was 14 that the emperor of
> ice-cream is not the only emperor, and I don't see how anybody's funeral
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> By the way, anyone who has bought Faber's new Selected Poems of Stevens
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> introduction by John Burnside might like to know (as was pointed out
> recently on another list) that in it the poem "Not Ideas about Things but
> the Thing Itself" is, after six lines, given the ending of a completely
> different poem, "As at a theatre". This means that the book was neither
> edited nor proof-read. Who knows what other bloomers there might be in
> it.
> Such are the standards of our great poetry publishers these days.
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