Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14071; Thu, 1 Oct 98 22:41:17 EDT Received: from xkey.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23908; Thu, 1 Oct 98 22:41:15 EDT Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by xkey.com id TAA23949 for minstrel-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:30:08 -0700 Received: (from smtp@localhost) by xkey.com id TAA23943 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:30:06 -0700 Received: from uclink4.Berkeley.EDU(128.32.25.39) by xkey.com via smtp (V1.3) id sma023939; Thu Oct 1 19:30:03 1998 Received: from uclink.berkeley.edu (uclink.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.155.3]) by uclink4.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19710 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hrjones@localhost) by uclink.berkeley.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA08185 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:28:21 -0700 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 19:28:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Heather Rose Jones To: minstrel@rt.com Subject: Re: minstrel: "sleepy" list? In-Reply-To: <19981001234209.4303.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-minstrel@rt.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Russell Gilman-Hunt wrote: > Ok, so how do y'all feel about a storytelling apprentice type (me) > *reading* his original poem, rather than reciting it? Hmmm. Explain to me the distinction you make between "reading" and "reciting" a poem, and I'll tell you how I feel about it. I don't _think_ I'm being deliberately dense here. (I assume we're not talking about the sort of off-putting "I am going to read my poem in as flat and uninteresting a voice as possible but you will appreciate it because I am a great poet" thing you run into at mundane poetry-readings. There are times I wish modern poets would revive the grand old medieval tradition of bards having professional reciters as part of their retinue. Heck, prose-authors too.) Urk. Well, depending on what you _did_ mean, maybe I _have_ told you how I feel about it. Ah well. Tangwystyl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send email to majordomo@pbm.com containing the words "unsubscribe minstrel". If you are subscribed to the digest version, say "unsubscribe minstrel-digest". To contact a human about problems, send mail to owner-minstrel@pbm.com