Yeah, I think if one takes Jon's statement as literal then of course
it is nonsensical, as are all statistical evaluations, we can all fall
into this kind of crap talk, so many percent of this or that, but in
judging human behavior rather than the genealogy of rocks, stats fall
down, however, Jon's statement as an expression of how things feel to
him does hold up, which is a different and foggy matter, like
consciousness, where this blessed and cursed art called poetry begins
to appear.
Best
Dave
2008/11/1 Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>:
> Gerald Schwartz wrote:
>>
>> Your assessment is about as statistically accurate as a Fox News/
>> Washington Times sponsored poll, judging the McCain/ Palin dynamic duo to be
>> about 20 percentage points ahead in the polls.
>>
>> Gerald S.
>> Working through the weekend to GOTV.
>>
>>> On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
>>>
>>>> The typical American attitude towards poetry is compounded of ninety
>>>> per cent amusement and ten per cent contempt, except, of course, in
>>>> the academic world, where these proportions are reversed.
>
> I suggest that Corelis' comment was an epigram that was not meant to bear
> the weight of seriousness, nor was it written to expose some Great Truth.
> The fact that two people (so far) have reacted furiously against its author
> suggests something disturbing, i.e., that they find themselves wounded by a
> meaningless statistical game.
>
> KW
>
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> strange distraught air of someone forever expecting a great misfortune, in
> sunlight, in a beautiful garden."--Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas et Melisande
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