Back January of 2014, two men in the Russian town of
Irbit engaged in a deep conversation about literary genres. One man thought poetry was the best form of
expression. The other man thought prose
writing was the best.
As I mentioned, the men were Russian.
They were drinking.
This sort sedate of argument occurs daily in the halls
of academia. But these were two Russian
men, drinking. The argument soon became
animated. After hearing quite enough claptrap
from the defender of prose, the man of poetry, a schoolteacher, stabbed the
prose fellow to death.
I find two valid points to take away from this sad
tale.
First, this proves, just as someone famous (whose name
presently escapes me) said: “poetry kills.”
Secondly, killing is one thing that should not be left
to the prose.
--Mitchell
Hegman
SOURCE:
www.independent.co.uk
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