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[via Eliot Weinberger's _Written Reaction_]: ----- *Persuasive New Defense of Traditional Prosody* "Prosody remains embedded in the finished work...[like] the armature in a statue: an essential part of the finished structure. We do not judge a statue by its armature, any more than we judge a beauty contest by the X-rays of the competitors. But what the X-rays show is essential to beauty; without the armature of the skeleton Miss America or Mr. Universe would collapse to a heap of flab..." --John Frederick Nims, _The Six-Cornered Snowflake_. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com