zodiac10 Apr 2004

Of course all poetry is guff. But it's guff you can make a comfortable living from if you learn to do it right, and I find it slightly more respectable than developing new extra-destructive explosives or some strain of supercholera or predicting stock futures or buying bankrupt people's houses for massively profitable resale - all of which are also guff to the max. And literature (and the requirement that it be taught to children) has a net liberalizing effect on the world, which I think is supremely useful and non-guff. -10-