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As a praise word, "punk" was far deadlier than "poetry" was
Just posted this on an old blogger thread that I found via Google:
Bug said: I've read it over thirty times now and am still no closer to understanding what the penman actually meant by this.
"through the process of our appreciating them[, we] turn them into nothing."
What does this mean?
Seriously. It's not a rhetorical question.
Wish you [rmd] had made more of an effort to answer this, as it is an excellent question that I quite sympathize with. In fact, it's what I was trying to understand way back then, and still am.
Anyway, if you're still in touch with Bug (whoever you are, whoever he/she is), I'll try to give a rudimentary answer, just with an example:
( You will never in a million years guess which current pop singer I use in my example )
Bug said: I've read it over thirty times now and am still no closer to understanding what the penman actually meant by this.
"through the process of our appreciating them[, we] turn them into nothing."
What does this mean?
Seriously. It's not a rhetorical question.
Wish you [rmd] had made more of an effort to answer this, as it is an excellent question that I quite sympathize with. In fact, it's what I was trying to understand way back then, and still am.
Anyway, if you're still in touch with Bug (whoever you are, whoever he/she is), I'll try to give a rudimentary answer, just with an example:
( You will never in a million years guess which current pop singer I use in my example )