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All the arts are infantile? Are you perhaps misreading childlike delight? P > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Jon Corelis > Sent: 22 November 2007 00:35 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: A tentative analysis > > Poetry, like all the arts, is the revenge of instinct on culture. > It's thus intrinsically sadistic, narcissistic, and unable to > distinguish fantasy from reality. It is, in other words, infantile. > > -- > =================================== > > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics > > ===================================