Keston,
You wrote
> Give care where it's NEEDED.
You KNOW what you need? Unique!
How do you know something is unappetising if you don't read it/eat it?
If you decide it's unappetising beforehand, you're shutting a lot out --
TASTE (in relation to reading) as with FOOD, is learned/acquired.
Ditto, if you choose what you read because it's published by
a 'certain kind of press' or because they are a particular
'type of writer', you're closing it down. This issue has nothing
to do with profligacy -- they are just different modes of writing/
production, in the end neither better or worse (heaven forbid!)
than each other. After the curry you need the raita.
-- Andy Brown
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> From: Keston Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
> To: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Book Trade
> Date: 15 April 1998 18:50
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> >The one vital lesson to young poets is to read absolutely everything,
> >however unappetising. (Douglas Clark)
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> The one VITAL lesson to poets is (allowing myself a bit of mouth here
> again) to read almost nothing unappetising: nausea nausea nausea! Give
> care where it's NEEDED. Profligacy was an 80s sentimentality, wasn't it?
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