tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post5736900043007351509..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `My List of Enjoyables'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-28730756243742632642012-09-30T18:32:23.626-05:002012-09-30T18:32:23.626-05:00"There's no better test of one's own ..."There's no better test of one's own honesty, as well as the power of a given poem to survive, than to choose to read it when no one is looking."<br /><br />I have seen some hundreds or thousands of persons attend plays or operas; I have seen almost nobody, except instructors, read poems, so few in fact that I can remember one instance and one book. For the power of survival--taking this in the sense of Robert Graves's poem distinguishing "by heart" from "by rote"--this is well enough. For honesty, I have to say that I think that Fussell underestimates the cleverness of hypocrisy. Or, more likely, his rhetoric ran away with him.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14819154529261482038noreply@blogger.com