[stylist] Your Take

[Judith Bron]

The nice thing about interpreting poetry is that no one is completely right 
and no one is completely wrong.  The PR lens isn't so narrow.  Small, yes. 
Narrow, no.  If it was really a narrow lens not one car would have been 
sold, the founder of McDonalds would have spent his life serving coffee in a 
diner and no one would have bought a computer and hooked up to the net. 
Bill Gates would have spent his life stacking books in a library and his 
condition of Asberger would have never been speculated.   No Joe, PR lenses 
are not narrow.  Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Orozco" <jsorozco at gmail.com>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Your Take


> Wow, I'm intrigued with everyone's interpretations.  They're far more
> sophisticated than my own.  For whatever it's worth, my view was that the
> poem reminds us that history, despite all its atrocities, is doomed to
> repeat itself over and over, but that there are always silver-tongued
> bystanders who are all too willing to sell us the promise that this time
> things really will be different.  See?  Unsophisticated and completely
> wrong, but maybe I'm trying too hard to fit it into a public relations 
> lens.
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
> "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
> some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing
>
>
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