Re: [New-Poetry] An Era of DÃ(c)tente for Creative- Wri ting Programs

[Mark Weiss]

How about "less analytically-inclined"? I have no idea if this is 
true, just suggesting what I think you meant.

At 04:24 PM 7/4/2009, you wrote:
>Chris Lott wrote:
>>Bob: What you call "base emotion," which I agree stems from a world of
>>experience and circumstances, is precisely what I was talking about.
>>It's inexplicable in any productive sense of the term. At some point,
>>many discussions of poetry come to this point of peaches or pears.
>>When *you* say this, it's just logical. When *I* say this, I'm anti-
>>and/or non- intellectual. It seems a pretty clear example of precisely
>>the point I was trying to make, which is that where this kind of
>>position is "allowed" is too often the point which best serves one's
>>agenda.
>>
>>You've made yourself abundantly clear, Bob. I'm sure you meant being
>>anti- and/or non-intellectual in the nicest way possible. It logically
>>follows that my being non-intellectual and/or anti-intellectual makes
>>it very difficult to learn anything from you.
>>
>>c
>What it indicates, finally, is the value of rigorous definition of 
>terms.  I am pretty sure that what you mean by "intellectual" is 
>vastly different from what I was talking about, and--I admit 
>it--badly misusing "anti-intellectual" and "non-intellectual" to 
>denote.  Not sure what term I ought to have used.  Will think about it.
>
>--Bob
>
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