Enero 30, 2014

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

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

(Via Slog.)
Ipinaskil ni Ann Althouse sa 10:14 AM
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18 komento:

Tibore ayon kay ...

I'd likely stab myself instead if I discovered my friend's choice of inebriated debate topics was literature.

1/30/14, 10:39 AM
Cliff ayon kay ...

That's quite an insult!

1/30/14, 10:42 AM
Bob Boyd ayon kay ...

Sounds like he had it coming.

1/30/14, 10:59 AM
Clyde ayon kay ...

That's what you call a 'sharp retort.'

1/30/14, 11:16 AM
Clyde ayon kay ...

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...

1/30/14, 11:17 AM
mccullough ayon kay ...

In fairness to the victim, Russian novels are better than Russian poetry.

1/30/14, 11:21 AM
Alex ayon kay ...

Now that's how they do it in Soviet Russia.

In Soviet Russia, literature READS you.

1/30/14, 12:02 PM
Revenant ayon kay ...

I'm in agreement with the murder victim on this one.

1/30/14, 12:25 PM
Ignorance is Bliss ayon kay ...

That's what you call poetic justice.

1/30/14, 12:30 PM
CStanley ayon kay ...

@Ignorance is Bliss-
But did he have a poetic license to kill?

1/30/14, 12:52 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

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!

1/30/14, 1:39 PM
Jaq ayon kay ...

I forgot about Betamax's blog.

1/30/14, 1:40 PM
Valentine Smith ayon kay ...

Them Russkies sure are sentimental about their literature, ain't they?

1/30/14, 1:57 PM
mccullough ayon kay ...

Tim,

John Asbery is very good. Elizabeth Bishop, too. If you like Robert Frost, you will probably like Richard Wilbur.

1/30/14, 3:11 PM
mccullough ayon kay ...

Also, Tom McGrath has some good poetry. As for non-americans, Seamus Heaney is also very good.

1/30/14, 3:15 PM
The Godfather ayon kay ...

"stabbing his friend". Doesn't that really require that they be "former" friends?

Et tu Brute? Then die Caesar!

1/30/14, 4:41 PM
rcocean ayon kay ...

"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.

1/30/14, 7:46 PM
rcocean ayon kay ...

And he was right, the only true Literature IS prose. When's the last time anyone wrote a poem anyone cared about? 1950?

1/30/14, 7:47 PM

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