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So apparently Faustinus had some more tricks up his sleeve, oder? ----- Original Message ----- From: Martin J. Walker To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and poetics Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Re: k j a hint of the truth (for Steve Duffy) Thank you, David, for posting that VeRT material: I like Alison's ironically ambiguous remark that pornography "leaves much to desire as an answer to alienation". (The subtle difference between this and "much to be desired."...) The Loving Editors' rap reeks of disingenuous equivocation. I don't agree with "retrospective blandness", however, & I can't see how having some featured poetry, from whatever stronghold, and lowering the hystrionic temperature on the list amounts to "trahison des clercs". This is slightly inflated. I don't believe myself that Kent "desires" to "re-enter" poetryetc ~ I think the show is over & Alecto's whips & snakes (get the mega-game now! 10% cheaper from www.faustine.com) have been packed away in obsessively tidy fashion to await the next performance while this one is being written up. It could have been a bit more amusing (he is half, but only half, as clever as he thinks he is, Joe) if Algernon, I mean Kent, hadn't that unfortunate tendency to foam at the mouth when "indignant" (from dignity, q.v.), and call every utterance that didn't foam "smarmy". I could get very psychoanalytical about this but no! Get thee behind me, Satanas! Martin