Sunday 21 June 2009

Fewtril no.269

Not mere apes: modernists. Mere apes might on occasion fling their own excrement, but they never claim it to be some form of new art.

4 comments:

dearieme said...

Larkin's "All What Jazz" is very good on modernists - Pound, Picasso and Parker stand in for the whole movement. (I used to know the name of that figure of speech - I'll bet you know it still.)

Deogolwulf said...

Synecdoche?

dearieme said...

What it is to have a memory! Thank you.

Deogolwulf said...

My pleasure.