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god almighty, it really has become that, constipated writers inc., you can see them bargain hunt the next big word - big word among very simple narrative, stands out like a christmas tree in a forest of anorexic pine - they've started the conveyor belt of horse eye shutters so they can be reined in on the basis of some puppet voodoo via the hindu muses of brahman, it's a 'down the line' moment: a does what a can only do, and b does what b can only do, given c is the process by which a does what a does prior to not doing it, like b, which does what b does prior to not doing it; me? well i too wish i was an english literature or a journalism university drop out, the hard man, the one who left school at 16 without any qualifications, started a record company, signed mike oldfield believing that tubular bells would be the basis for the soundtrack to both halloween and the exorcist (1973, 1978 and 1974 respectively) - but they're just coming out of these institutions with institutional verse - they're bothered and conscious of techniques, they know why and when to use a metaphor, they care about saying a maxim about a similie, they do everything by the rubric as if poetry was a multiplication table worth memorising, they write about thirty words a piece in order that someone might write a 10,000 word essay playing surgeon on them, cutting them up to such a bare minimum that you could almost learn kabbalah inside-out - but i did graduate with a chemistry degree unfortunately, and that makes me no hard man, but i did masacre a bottle of absinthe at about ~96% in one night and got annoyed at not being drunk enough - yeah... hard as they come... nothing to be proud of in all honesty... yes all that sugar on spoon, bit of absinthe on sugar and inferno - then some water to dilute the absinthe and make it milky green (czech absinthe doesn't turn milky, some additive is missing, i can't remember) because i have this one point to make: over-analysing poetic expression, being conscious of poetic techniques, in general orthodoxy is so ****** tedious that you begin to put faith in free verse... that splendour of spontaneity like fireworks set off un-expectedly on guy fawkes night giving you a startle.
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 7:23 AM UTC
those with an MA in english
god almighty, it really has become that, constipated writers inc., you can see them bargain hunt the next big word - big word among very simple narrative, stands out like a christmas tree in a forest of anorexic pine - they've started the conveyor belt of horse eye shutters so they can be reined in on the basis of some puppet voodoo via the hindu muses of brahman, it's a 'down the line' moment: a does what a can only do, and b does what b can only do, given c is the process by which a does what a does prior to not doing it, like b, which does what b does prior to not doing it; me? well i too wish i was an english literature or a journalism university drop out, the hard man, the one who left school at 16 without any qualifications, started a record company, signed mike oldfield believing that tubular bells would be the basis for the soundtrack to both halloween and the exorcist (1973, 1978 and 1974 respectively) - but they're just coming out of these institutions with institutional verse - they're bothered and conscious of techniques, they know why and when to use a metaphor, they care about saying a maxim about a similie, they do everything by the rubric as if poetry was a multiplication table worth memorising, they write about thirty words a piece in order that someone might write a 10,000 word essay playing surgeon on them, cutting them up to such a bare minimum that you could almost learn kabbalah inside-out - but i did graduate with a chemistry degree unfortunately, and that makes me no hard man, but i did masacre a bottle of absinthe at about ~96% in one night and got annoyed at not being drunk enough - yeah... hard as they come... nothing to be proud of in all honesty... yes all that sugar on spoon, bit of absinthe on sugar and inferno - then some water to dilute the absinthe and make it milky green (czech absinthe doesn't turn milky, some additive is missing, i can't remember) because i have this one point to make: over-analysing poetic expression, being conscious of poetic techniques, in general orthodoxy is so ****** tedious that you begin to put faith in free verse... that splendour of spontaneity like fireworks set off un-expectedly on guy fawkes night giving you a startle.
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Dec 16, 2015
Dec 16, 2015 at 7:23 AM UTC
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