30 જાન્યુઆરી, 2014

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

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

(Via Slog.)
આમના દ્વારા પોસ્ટ કરેલા Ann Althouse પર 10:14 AM
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18 ટિપ્પણીઓ:

Tibore કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 10:39 AM
Cliff કહ્યું...

That's quite an insult!

30/1/14 10:42 AM
Bob Boyd કહ્યું...

Sounds like he had it coming.

30/1/14 10:59 AM
Clyde કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 11:16 AM
Clyde કહ્યું...

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...

30/1/14 11:17 AM
mccullough કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 11:21 AM
Alex કહ્યું...

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

In Soviet Russia, literature READS you.

30/1/14 12:02 PM
Revenant કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 12:25 PM
Ignorance is Bliss કહ્યું...

That's what you call poetic justice.

30/1/14 12:30 PM
CStanley કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 12:52 PM
Jaq કહ્યું...

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!

30/1/14 01:39 PM
Jaq કહ્યું...

I forgot about Betamax's blog.

30/1/14 01:40 PM
Valentine Smith કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 01:57 PM
mccullough કહ્યું...

Tim,

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

30/1/14 03:11 PM
mccullough કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 03:15 PM
The Godfather કહ્યું...

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

Et tu Brute? Then die Caesar!

30/1/14 04:41 PM
rcocean કહ્યું...

"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.

30/1/14 07:46 PM
rcocean કહ્યું...

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

30/1/14 07:47 PM

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