☥ 6th. {text} she sits down to her coloured thread

[quiesquietis]

Dear City

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[citadelspirit]

I am not in your camp. I have no use for poetry.

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[quiesquietis]

Is there a reason for that?

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[citadelspirit]

Because I have other goals to accomplish, and spending my time spinning rhymes and complex verse does nothing to advance them.

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[quiesquietis]

Ah, pragmatism.

[schisming]

Predictable, I'm aware. The majority of such works is outside my province, but I confess a liking for Modernists.

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[quiesquietis]

Dr. Argento, the only thing predictable there is that I'm as ever impressed by your taste. And Philomel, well.

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[schisming]

Eliot does like his classical references. But so do I, ergo: predictable. Are you interested in something in the Homeric tradition? It does go to prove a point about the ends of which poetry is capable, as well as the particulars of translation.

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[quiesquietis]

Please, share it with me. I'd like to learn something today.