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"Bachelor tea" is fine. I am happy.
-Grace
Tim Bray wrote:
> Tim Romano wrote:
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>> http://www.mentalfloss.com/newissue.htm
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>>> I have not seen it yet, but I understand there is an article on
>>> EP in
>>> MENTAL FLOSS magazine Vol.2 Issue 5 by Greg Barnhisel. Has anyone read
>>> it?
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> I purchased this magazine and read most of it, and I do not recommend
> it. I struggle for vocabulary to describe it... it's trying to do the
> sound-bite version of erudition or something. It's full of "fascinating
> facts", and no article is longer than 3 or 4 pages, the attitude is
> pretty relentlessly gee-whiz. The piece on Pound is a flat
> under-written recital of the facts, with big-font pull-outs obviously
> inserted by someone who had read neither the article nor any Pound. Any
> recital of the essentials on EP ought to elicit at least two chosen from
> a list including pity, contempt, and awe. I left the magazine in a
> hotel room but my recollection is that not one word of the verse is
> excerpted. It says Mauberley is "perhaps Pound's finest poem." I can't
> imagine what kind of person invents such a magazine.
>
> --
> Cheers, Tim Bray
> (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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