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Hey hey, don't get defensive.
How is this specific discussion pretentious? Well, because you used a metaphor to ask the question "what makes a poet a poet?" rather than just asking the question directly.. a little pretentious, right? And personally I think most discussions of art and poetry are inherently pretentious, because art/poetry IS often composed almost entirely of pretention. I'm not assigning a value judgement to this assesment- I'm just saying that I percieve it like this. I usually quite enjoy these discussions myself, I'm not saying they're useless or undesirable.
And of course this is what we should talk about. We just wouldn't be awesome if we didn't.
[I'm mildly sorry if I sound like a douche about this- but I'm feeling pissy and blunt.]
And why does everyone take such offense at the P word? I don't mean on this site, but in general. People haaate it. It's such an overused word anyway.... it barely means anything anymore.
PS- Blaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How is this specific discussion pretentious? Well, because you used a metaphor to ask the question "what makes a poet a poet?" rather than just asking the question directly.. a little pretentious, right? And personally I think most discussions of art and poetry are inherently pretentious, because art/poetry IS often composed almost entirely of pretention. I'm not assigning a value judgement to this assesment- I'm just saying that I percieve it like this. I usually quite enjoy these discussions myself, I'm not saying they're useless or undesirable.
And of course this is what we should talk about. We just wouldn't be awesome if we didn't.
[I'm mildly sorry if I sound like a douche about this- but I'm feeling pissy and blunt.]
And why does everyone take such offense at the P word? I don't mean on this site, but in general. People haaate it. It's such an overused word anyway.... it barely means anything anymore.
PS- Blaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You couldn't possibly butter my toast - Mindless Self Indulgence
by ShanV on Mar. 6 2008