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From: s.c. crawford <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 August 1999 19:09
Subject: a general point
I *assume this is a response to mine on the effects of poetry-style popular
entertainment in the form of Wendy Cope, though it is so indirect I have had
to read it a couple of times to be fairly sure. Verging on coy. Why so
indirect?
|disrespect to one is disrespect to all;
is not true. Everyone is due courtesy and politeness, but that derives from
a very limited kind of respect. Respect as such has to be
earned, otherwise it isn't respect but fear or lip service. I have no such
respect for Wendy Cope but I can't get away from her. Went into the
kitchen to get a cup of tea just now and they were telling us that any day
now we'll hear her again. I reserve the right to retaliate.
| a personal analysis of work a sham
|device for gender business.
as a general point is also clearly not true, assuming I have guessed
correctly what "gender business" means. Why so vague?
Gender is nothing to do with what I said though it's an easy thing to trot
out.
Nor was there any sham. It said what it meant.
I am rarely so personal. I might well have said, facetiously, off any
record,
her poetry makes me vomit or something equally vague and
apparently hyperbolic, meaning I can see absolutely nothing in it and I am
beginning to find it quite aggressive of those who praise her to the skies
to do so because it violates everything I know about liking poetry. I might.
Such half-formed thoughts are in my mind every time I have heard her. And I
do listen, because so many admirers may not always be wrong.
But then it really happened.
L
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