Re: JDS The Poet

Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:57:40 +1100

> >i always heard that salinger hated poetry... at least that thought lies
in my
> >head, it may be a stray from some other memory.
> 
> "As for poetry, I may say that I consider it unbecoming for a man of my
> years to devote his faculties to the making of verses.  Poetry is
rubbish.
> Even boys at school ought to be whipped for writing it."
> -- Dostoevsky, Poor Folk

Yes, but then again Dostoevsky raped a twelve year old girl and boasted to
all his friends about it. Which is why I could never quite bear to embark
on Dostoevsky.

Camille
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