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December 9, 2015
“The reading public has learned how to consume even the greatest fiction as if it were a can of soup.
Business executives can buy great paintings and hang them on their walls as status trophies. Tourists can ‘do’ the greatest architecture in an hour’s guided tour. But poetry, thank God, the public still find indigestible.” Auden : Essays in Idleness
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And yet, as he aged, Auden more short accessible pieces. And as I age, I eat more canned goods.
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at December 9, 2015 11:54 AM
A few things I don't *get*:
Complex poetry, jazz, LIEberals.
Don't want to neither.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 9, 2015 1:47 PM