Re: Kafka and rilke and Perplexity State University

i'm inclined to go along, but only if tina doesn't
know. (i'm in enough trouble already.)

and, jim, that was some late submission! i really
enjoyed both title and double-haiku.

kim

--- James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> I've been thinking about this, Kim, and while I do
> have an almost
> instinctual aversion to censorship, I'm thinking in
> this case perhaps a
> censorship "after the fact" may be entirely
> appropriate.
>
> I think I'd like to advocate appropriate punishments
> for authors and
> publishers who inflict bad poetry upon the world.
> I'm thinking a mere
> fine isn't enough. Nothing short of corporeal
> punishment will do,
> ranging from a hand slap for a bad line to week long
> torture culminating
> in death for the worst poetry.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jim
>
> >
> > now live: nowhere have i suggested that writers
> > should be censored. at most, i float the
> idea--yes, i
> > use the word stricture--that readers would benefit
> > (and even writers too, to avoid possible future
> > embarrassment)--that poems shouldn't be allowed in
> > print until a year after their composition. i
> didn't
> > say they shouldn't be published ever.
> >
> > kim
>
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