Notions of genius I reckon are a) selective farmings of reactions b) sadly,
a distorted image of what is true: the basic value that everyone carries,
whatever they do with it c) sometimes true.
What I was trying, clumsily, to put across, was that the mediation of poetry
in this Gilbert and Sullivan meets Clockwork Orange of a land, is laced over
with an extra to the normal of status-jockeying etc that goes on everywhere.
We've just got so much past, every inch almost is occupied with it.
Agree, Ms Croggon?
dave
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> >Not that sanction isn't allowed to speak, but only for those chosen as
> >recruits, that's the way the selectors work over here.
>
>
> Poetry seems self-selecting to me, but perhaps that's merely an
> aggrandising illusion... as Pasternak said, we're all geniuses here,
> aren't we?
>
> best
>
> Alison
>
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