Christopher, I had the same concern -- played back and forth with them, then
decided they worked. A narrative poem is more in-your-face, more
"realistic," with quotation marks.
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From: "Christopher C Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2009 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: "Envy and Indifference"
Frederick, I like the use of quotation marks and the way they play
across the lines. At first I did think they could be removed but on the
second and third read I could see how they work. very nice...
On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 21:03 -0500, Frederick Pollack wrote:
> “You won’t deny the past happened,”
> said the don gamely.
> Russell wouldn’t. “Nor that the future
> will happen. You believe it intuitively.”
> Russell jibbed, but provisionally
> agreed. “It seems clear to me,”
> said the don, “that this ‘happening’
> and our intuitive sense of it are real;
> ‘when’ something seems to occur,
> ‘where’ (so to speak) it’s positioned,
> much less so.” “A sort of trick,”
> smiled Russell. One evening a throng
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