[New-Poetry] Poetic Justice

[Sigauke, Emmanuel]

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From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Day [rog3r.day at gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:34 PM
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,   Views
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Poetic Justice

"absorbed data" yeah, right.

Roger

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net> wrote:
> Roger Day wrote:
>>
>> "you go to war with the army you have"
>>
>> and those are the only figures I could find. I did say I couldn't
>> quite trust those figures wrt poets. Still, if there are better ones
>> out there ...
>>
>> When ever I get a "feeling" I always try to correlate these feelings
>> with something that looks like a fact and adjust my sense of things
>> accordingly. YMMV.
>>
>
> Well, usually my feelings are based on absorbed data.  The main thing is to
> resist claiming one's opinion is a fact, which I have done here.  I'd add
> that  in this case it's pretty certain there are no relevant figures around,
> although the ones you produced were interesting--at the same level as my
> feelings.  This is a kind of dopey but fun topic to bat around, I think, but
> nothing more serious.
> Another observation: that there are a huge number of men in the States who
> bewail how much professional athletes are paid--yet spend ten percent or
> more of their lives watching them on television and reading about them in
> newspapers and magazines.
>
> --Bob G.
>
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