Why does it so often happen on this list that potentially useful
discussion gets shut down by resentful flourishes, parrying no argument
but creeping to some dreary communal sense of fun with remarks like,
'assuming this isn't a self-parody...' and other jounalistic sneers?
Can't our outbursts be less inward, for a nice change? I thought Peter
had provoked a useful and pertinent discussion: how can we currently
legitimate the pejorative use of 'moneyed' to describe styles of prose
argument, or styles of verse? This is -interesting-, -worth talking
about-. Absurdly it's coughed down without insight, as if we were sitting
primly in a pub where any advanced idiom would be likely to earn us a clip
round the ear.
OK, back to the inert natter.
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