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proximoceptionDennys < plain Wonder Bread and warm tapwater
Jarrell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lowell
Jarrell = never great, though never particularly bad; maybe has Aiken's Disease? Though Aiken has his great bits. So rather Williams' Disease? Maybe wish a dash of Ammons Syndrome - trying to not be great as you can tomnot distract from saying everything you mean to.
(When its great poet's hiding herself, a generation picks whoever tics off the most boxes from the list of how it imagines the great poet it deserves to produce would be. War guy, check, imperial history guy, check, guy period, white, authoritative, seems difficult, message simple enough when found, has lots of footnoteable bits thus professor-friendly, attacks self, anguishedly but normatively religious, does both long and short stuff, rhymes but not always, drunk, insane, comparatively handsome, regional, universal because that region's considered normative, leftish but let's not get carried away damn it, wears sweaters, wears glasses. Bam, Lowell. Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy era wet dream on paper. He's not terrible but he's as bad as anyone everyone tells you is good could possibly be. If I ever say otherwise I've been kidnapped.)
Breaking Bad > The Wire
Jarrell >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Lowell
Jarrell = never great, though never particularly bad; maybe has Aiken's Disease? Though Aiken has his great bits. So rather Williams' Disease? Maybe wish a dash of Ammons Syndrome - trying to not be great as you can tomnot distract from saying everything you mean to.
(When its great poet's hiding herself, a generation picks whoever tics off the most boxes from the list of how it imagines the great poet it deserves to produce would be. War guy, check, imperial history guy, check, guy period, white, authoritative, seems difficult, message simple enough when found, has lots of footnoteable bits thus professor-friendly, attacks self, anguishedly but normatively religious, does both long and short stuff, rhymes but not always, drunk, insane, comparatively handsome, regional, universal because that region's considered normative, leftish but let's not get carried away damn it, wears sweaters, wears glasses. Bam, Lowell. Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy era wet dream on paper. He's not terrible but he's as bad as anyone everyone tells you is good could possibly be. If I ever say otherwise I've been kidnapped.)
Breaking Bad > The Wire
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Date: 2016-03-18 08:37 pm (UTC)Re: Wire v. BB, at the height of Stringer Bell, they're pretty close. But I think you're probably right.
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Date: 2016-03-20 04:03 am (UTC)Strange how neither looks wrong. I bet using the less than symbol would look wrong, either way.