I think that was me


 


In response to a rather lightweight novel (Alan LIghtman's Reunion --the Einstein's Dreams guy, you know) in which a character says poetry is useless, I found myself saying, "Nonsense. Poetry is the means by which we repair our language."

And then, like, you know, I went "whoa."

It's pithy enough that it sounds like somebody else, but it's me.

Unless I'm coughing up a hairball of some distant unconscious past, some quotation read and forgotten, in which case I entreat someone to set me straight about the source.

It's true, though.

Posted: Saturday - July 30, 2005 at 10:37 PM        

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