What I Have To Put Up With As A Commentator On Poetics, Part 374

Marcus Bales is once again my foil. My division of verbal expression into "literature (texts in pursuit of beauty); informrature--or utilitarian verbal expression; and advocature, or verbal propaganda" had once again come up. I was explaining why addresses and the like were not poetry, although lineated the way poetry is.

"Do you realize," replied he, "that with this kind of division you've said that the entirety of literature is useless? Why are you spending any of your valuable time on something that is useless? Shouldn't you be doing something useful, like writing out addresses, or something?"

Thank goodness for Bales and his verosopathy. Once again, he's given me material for a blog entry I didn't think I was going to have the energy to write. I hope to return to my investigation of the nature of poetry tomorrow, but right now fear I may not have anything more to say.

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