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petroniaThe most evil and manipulative character in the series is, in fact, Tao.
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On an issue that has nothing to do with the above: I think seme/uke versus not (and "not" is not the same thing as "reversible") is comparable to metred verse versus free verse. On the one hand they say, "No offense, but if it doesn't have structure it just doesn't seem like poetry to me," on the other hand they say, "What's the point of following those rules - what are you, some sort of blinkered reactionary?" A more moderate view would be that both are poetry, they're just different kinds of poetry. Sometimes you are writing a sonnet and sometimes you are writing free verse. One of the points of writing a sonnet is that you have to negotiate the rules; with free verse you have to take into account other, often more subtle aspects. Neither is necessarily harder nor better than the other. Both have their pitfalls; both can be managed badly. And sometimes a sonnet is the form best suited to the inspiration at hand, whereas sometimes it isn't.
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On an issue that has nothing to do with the above: I think seme/uke versus not (and "not" is not the same thing as "reversible") is comparable to metred verse versus free verse. On the one hand they say, "No offense, but if it doesn't have structure it just doesn't seem like poetry to me," on the other hand they say, "What's the point of following those rules - what are you, some sort of blinkered reactionary?" A more moderate view would be that both are poetry, they're just different kinds of poetry. Sometimes you are writing a sonnet and sometimes you are writing free verse. One of the points of writing a sonnet is that you have to negotiate the rules; with free verse you have to take into account other, often more subtle aspects. Neither is necessarily harder nor better than the other. Both have their pitfalls; both can be managed badly. And sometimes a sonnet is the form best suited to the inspiration at hand, whereas sometimes it isn't.
