I like to know when and where the parts are rattling, a gasket is busted, or a flywheel is flying, when all I could hear was a purring engine. And I like people to weigh in on the B.S. factor: saying when something doesn’t ring true. All of it has to do with the "obedience to truth" I was talking about on the philosophy thread. Working at a poem is an incremental fine tuning of the truth it embodies, and intelligent well-meaning comments can help with that.
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