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Doug Clark said, >This business of writing poetry seems an illusion to me Hey, Doug-- as to "beautiful minds," that phrase occured to me a few times as I read your posts on poetry and linguistics last week. On the above remark by you, if I may: The business of writing poetry seems an illusion to me, too. Henry's post just now about poetry's Being possibly *being* the adding of meaning to the meaning of meaning is another way, maybe, of saying that poetry is an illusion. A beautiful illusion, with terrible ghosts hiding in the attic. A question: Do you think poetry is any more an illusion than mathematics? Kent