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Well, it's like if a poetry board only picked poems written in lowercase beetnemesis Send a noteboard - 18/09/2010 08:21:36 AM
e e cummings made it haunting and powerful, but once a few dozen books do it, you start to go "Yes, ok, you are not bound by traditional grammar and usage rules, we GET IT."

Pullman was just saying that it' starting to come off more like a gimmick than anything else.


People are reading too much into this, I think. It's not a political manifesto, it's just a guy bitching about something he's unhappy with. No different than a football fan bitching about too many running plays, or a music fan wishing his band would finally learn another freaking chord.
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agreed. *NM* - 15/09/2010 08:17:17 PM 244 Views
Well, it's like if a poetry board only picked poems written in lowercase - 18/09/2010 08:21:36 AM 546 Views
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And on vellum. And by hand. And typically with long, boring ekphrases. - 22/09/2010 10:03:46 AM 526 Views
No dissing ekphrases - 22/09/2010 11:49:24 AM 547 Views
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