Wait Wait!
I took Angel's original post as a joke about definitions, but now,
Angel, youre getting carried away. Lets just let it go, please?
Doug
On 25-Apr-10, at 2:52 PM, Angel wrote:
> Did you delete me yet you cock sucker?
>
> Or are you going to rob me of that too?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Apr 25, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Angel, your message request is not appropriate to this list. Please
>> refrain or the exit is not far away.
>>
>> Back to poetry, please.
>>
>> Stephen Vincent
>>
>> --- On Sun, 4/25/10, Angel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Angel <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Adventurous rejected: Magma Blog
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 12:56 PM
>>
>> I need a book about sex, I think I might not be doing it correct
>> and would like to gain some status in that area.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Apr 25, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> But Doug, isn’t this “lack” of a definition just a relativistic
>>> rationalisation (not from you, I stress) to allow non-poetry the
>>> same "status" as poetry?
>>>
>>> As Bob said to Angel earlier, surely we need definitions and
>>> classifications to talk intelligently about the subject. Of
>>> course, we shouldn’t be too stringent in our definitions, but
>>> surely an all-out relativistic taxonomy can’t be a good thing?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Original Message:
>>>
>>> I suspect it's many things, & changes with whoever is making a
>>> definition, yet, somehow or other, this sloppy set (or whatever the
>>> term is) still has a hold on us, & we each of us thinks we know what
>>> 'poetry' is.
>>>
>>> Every time I thought I had a definition that fit, I'd find something
>>> that was outside the wall yet struck me, as yes, poetry.
>
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