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Unread 03-18-2016, 05:50 PM
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This is fun, of course. Remember, though, what Oscar Wilde said with such truth -- you're in trouble when everyone nominates you, because it means you are derivative: "Oh, he writes just like Richard Wilbur!" You are also in trouble when nobody approves you, for reasons which are self-evident. Or ought to be.

The likeliest for the canon are the mixed-review writers. The ones which get an equal chorus of "Hear! Hear!" and "You are crazy" at their nominations

J
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