Ok Peter, perhaps it has gone on too long but the discussion was not really about whether literature can include song but rather about how it includes song, which is a topic you yourself have written on at some length in your review of Denise Riley. So I don't quite understand this declaration of war.
Yours pacifically,
Jamie
> On 22 Oct 2016, at 23:16, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> I'm with you, Peter.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Oct 22, 2016 6:13 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: a bit much
>>
>> Getting back from a fine concert of Indian music on the chitravina in
>> Bradford at 11:00 pm and finding no less than twenty-four e-mails have
>> arrived, all from the same four people in pursuit of arguments which
>> are of no interest to me and aren't getting anywhere anyway -- is a
>> bit much.
>>
>> I declare war on these discussions.
>>
>> Of course literature includes song, how could it possibly not?
>>
>>
>> PR
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