[New-Poetry] Self-literacy. And interesting concept?

[Anny Ballardini]

It was: disaccurate the inaccurate, no that leaves you with a *dis-in*
accurate the inaccurate, which leaves you with an *in*
inaccurate the accurate, gets you just about there again

Hal, I think there aren't any terms.


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eh, Skip! Now what's the term for being able to distinguish an
> "accurate" appraisal from one that's "inaccurate"?
>
> Hal
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> "A paranoid is someone who knows a little
> of what's going on."
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:
>
>>   *Self Literacy*. *From Definitions for the New Mill*ennium: The ability
>> to accurate appraise your own written work.
>>
>>
>>
>> How many could we call self-literate? Would Eliot’s “a little grumbling in
>> verse” in relation to *The Waste Land* qualify him for literacy or
>> illiteracy (or simply doing the Brit-low-ball). And I wonder if I am
>> literate in this sense, and have wondered so for much of the past 40 years.
>> You?
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