I must say that I think that Disch's accusation that there is a "poverty of immagination" in Whittemore to be one of the more outlandish assertions I've ever heard that haven't come from the mouth of my president (I'm from the US).
-Pat

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: And yet more spam deleted this week. Thank
: you, Anne. You wouldn't consider coming to
: work for my server, would you?
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: Anyway, inspired by this thread, I went to
: read Disch's article and was amused to see
: that it said pretty much what I thought
: about Disch himself when I first read him
: some years ago. This man (I thought) is
: writing this way just to be avant garde-ish,
: and also possibly because he has nothing to
: say. He's made a career for himself since,
: but my opinion remains the same.
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: Bill
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