Do you want me to take this indirect 'dig' as exactly that, then,
Christopher----indirect? Why don't you just rebut me? Indirection's too
easy, and it's sneaky.
You wrote: "Better certainly than the limbo of anthologies and set books or
(say) the musical conveyance of analogy."
Hon. joodles
2008/9/14 Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> <snip>
> Btw there hasn't been any discussion about this, but yesterday I saw
> on on the newspaper stands 'I was glad to ban poet', that was because
> a poem by Duffy had been kicked off the National Curriculum by a
> Leicestershire school-teacher, so The Leicester Mercury got into the
> act, now whatever I I think about C.A.D's poems I'll defend her right
> to write them. There seems to have been a peculiar and noticeable
> silence on this list about this matter. [DB]
> <snip>
>
> I knew nothing of this before googling. Now I do.
>
> Banning does at least mean *taking seriously*, and that may be better than
> nothing. Better certainly than the limbo of anthologies and set books or
> (say) the musical conveyance of analogy. There was a nice instance in the
> case of *God is Dead*, an Italian song of the 60s which draws a bit on
> *Howl*. If I've got the story right, RAI banned it (sacrilegious!) whereas
> Vatican Radio actually favoured it because the last verse reads (here I
> paraphrase) God is risen when we are true to ourselves.
>
> The idea that knife crime is affected either way by reading CAD is a pretty
> certain indication that the thinker is a crank. But if only that _were_ the
> case!
>
> CW
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