Or a Can or a Cant.... Dou([utting my thinking cap on....) On 12-Mar-10, at 7:21 AM, Tim Allen wrote: > There isn't a should or a shouldn't there is only an is and an isn't. > > Tim A. > > On 12 Mar 2010, at 14:08, Gerald Schwartz wrote: > >> Taking a page from David Hilbert's well-known list of 23 "Paris >> Problems" (1900), and, likewise, >> hoping to see solutions in this new century, I've formulated a list >> of questions, which of course >> there is not the slightest connection between Hilbert's list of >> problems and this line of questioning. >> >> Not to mention the fact that many of my questions may contain the >> answers simply in the asking. >> >> Question # 1: >> >> Should any current poet be judged against only the very best works >> of the past? >> >> G. E. Schwartz > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html It is ink on paper love Frank O'Hara