३० जानेवारी, २०१४

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

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

(Via Slog.)

१८ टिप्पण्या:

Tibore म्हणाले...

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

Cliff म्हणाले...

That's quite an insult!

Bob Boyd म्हणाले...

Sounds like he had it coming.

Clyde म्हणाले...

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

Clyde म्हणाले...

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...

mccullough म्हणाले...

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

Alex म्हणाले...

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

In Soviet Russia, literature READS you.

Revenant म्हणाले...

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

Ignorance is Bliss म्हणाले...

That's what you call poetic justice.

CStanley म्हणाले...

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

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

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!

tim in vermont म्हणाले...

I forgot about Betamax's blog.

Valentine Smith म्हणाले...

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

mccullough म्हणाले...

Tim,

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

mccullough म्हणाले...

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

The Godfather म्हणाले...

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

Et tu Brute? Then die Caesar!

rcocean म्हणाले...

"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.

rcocean म्हणाले...

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