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Mike Chisholm's avatar

Reading through Don Paterson's latest book of aphorisms ("The Fall at Home") I found this:

"A student brings me a Xerox of a page of 'Henderson the Rain King', with most of the words whited out to reveal what I assume was a poem. 'What's this?' I ask. 'It's an "erasure" poem', he replies. I tell him it's half-finished. The remark passes over him, silently and very high, like the Hubble telescope. I have a loathing of all art made *procedurally*, which makes me want to smash it for the mere sake of introducing into it some minimal human warmth."

Preceded by "I preferred not to think that no one had come, but rather that my reading was being held in total secrecy"... Hmm, any connection, I wonder?

Mike

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James Lockwood's avatar

A most interesting article, which I enjoyed reading not least because Major RC Warlow-Harry-Harry is my grandfather...!

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