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Perhaps “fix” was a too stronger inference. I just meant the whole thing
is a bit unwholesome and self-indulgent—a bit like the poet laureate
concept.
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Not at all what you said in the first place, Jeffrey. In fact pretty much
completely different. So I might as well stop bothering to respond further
to anything you say, since it will only turn out that you didn't actually
say it after all.
<sigh>
R.
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:45:59 -0500, Robin Hamilton
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Jeff wrote:
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><<
>Yes, I am a bit cynical about the electoral transparency of the
elections
>for the Oxford poetry professorship. Partly because Stevenson seemed
>to let something slip when she said it was an honour “that a poet was
>asked to accept”. This sounds as if she had been privy at some point
in
>the past to the behind-the-scenes machinations that might go on. She
>must be in a position to know what she meant.
>>>
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