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The whole thing (this pressure to disregard all Chomsky's work because he met Epstein and Bannon and Barak...) has me going back the _Practical Criticism_'s I.A. Ricards on the Prophets and Poetry..

> ... Happy was Isaiah, who had no biographer! Unhappy, Jeremiah, about whom we know too much. Amos again: what a noble figure! Poor Hosea...

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Brian Small

"A sterner conscience and a friendlier home." --- W. B. Yeats In I.A. Richards's _So Much Nearer_ p. 150~ "The Future of Poetry" p. 151~ Try it again: "t...

bsmall2Feb 11

> ... Happy was Isaiah, who had no biographer! Unhappy, Jeremiah, about whom we know too much. Amos again: what a noble figure! Poor Hosea, the type specimen of Nosy Parker! If one-tenth the attention had been linguistic not novelistic; it appears that there's no reason whatever to think Hosea and his wife, Gomer, were not an entirely happy, faithful pair....
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Brian Small

"A sterner conscience and a friendlier home." --- W. B. Yeats In I.A. Richards's _So Much Nearer_ p. 150~ "The Future of Poetry" p. 151~ Try it again: "t...

bsmall2Feb 9
" Traditionally, and rightly, the prophet trembles. On him lies a double duty: that of acutally swaying the future by his words; and that of being a /true/ prophet--- not a false one. The penalty for being a false prophet... is to be stoned to death... consult Deuteronomy 13..."
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