Althouse: Murder victim insisted that "the only real literature is prose."

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Murder victim insisted that "the only real literature is prose."

Victim and murderer were — it says here — friends and, also, drunk.

(Via Slog.)

১৮টি মন্তব্য:

Tibore বলেছেন...: I'd likely stab myself instead if I discovered my friend's choice of inebriated debate topics was literature.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১০:৩৯ AM
Cliff বলেছেন...: That's quite an insult!; ৩০/১/১৪, ১০:৪২ AM
Bob Boyd বলেছেন...: Sounds like he had it coming.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১০:৫৯ AM
Clyde বলেছেন...: That's what you call a 'sharp retort.'; ৩০/১/১৪, ১১:১৬ AM
Clyde বলেছেন...: And "both drunk at the time"? That's "dog-bites-man" in Russia. Like saying that two North Koreans were both hungry at the time...; ৩০/১/১৪, ১১:১৭ AM
mccullough বলেছেন...: In fairness to the victim, Russian novels are better than Russian poetry.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১১:২১ AM
Alex বলেছেন...: Now that's how they do it in Soviet Russia.

In Soviet Russia, literature READS you.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১২:০২ PM
Revenant বলেছেন...: I'm in agreement with the murder victim on this one.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১২:২৫ PM
Ignorance is Bliss বলেছেন...: That's what you call poetic justice.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১২:৩০ PM
CStanley বলেছেন...: @Ignorance is Bliss-
But did he have a poetic license to kill?; ৩০/১/১৪, ১২:৫২ PM
Jaq বলেছেন...: Has anybody here seen any decent poetry in English since about the time of the death of Robert Frost?

I don't mean hyper-effete stuff, I mean poetry that somebody could read and understand without having been trained to it that wasn't basically just somebody's therapy. Maybe some of the stuff that Anthony Burgess wrote as a goof in his novel Enderby.

And get off of my lawn!; ৩০/১/১৪, ১:৩৯ PM
Jaq বলেছেন...: I forgot about Betamax's blog.; ৩০/১/১৪, ১:৪০ PM
Valentine Smith বলেছেন...: Them Russkies sure are sentimental about their literature, ain't they?; ৩০/১/১৪, ১:৫৭ PM
mccullough বলেছেন...: Tim,

John Asbery is very good. Elizabeth Bishop, too. If you like Robert Frost, you will probably like Richard Wilbur.; ৩০/১/১৪, ৩:১১ PM
mccullough বলেছেন...: Also, Tom McGrath has some good poetry. As for non-americans, Seamus Heaney is also very good.; ৩০/১/১৪, ৩:১৫ PM
The Godfather বলেছেন...: "stabbing his friend". Doesn't that really require that they be "former" friends?

Et tu Brute? Then die Caesar!; ৩০/১/১৪, ৪:৪১ PM
rcocean বলেছেন...: "The man, whose name has been withheld, was placed under arrest and charged with murder, punishable with up to 15 years in prison."

UP TO 15 years? Wow, Russia really throws the book at you.; ৩০/১/১৪, ৭:৪৬ PM
rcocean বলেছেন...: And he was right, the only true Literature IS prose. When's the last time anyone wrote a poem anyone cared about? 1950?; ৩০/১/১৪, ৭:৪৭ PM