"TO A JET PILOT"
Sir,-One assumes that by now the Intelligentsia has regained its equilibrium and is patting itself on the back for having so successfully confused the minds of your readers with its meaningless verbiage. If this be the case, one wonders vaguely at its intelligence, for from where I am sitting it would appear that the correspondents who so readily condemned my analysis of James Baxter’s poem have merely substantiated my views, Let us examine D. A. St. John’s letter. His first paragraph introduced the subject, his second was devoted entirely to an absurd criticism of one minute phrase, and his third contained the unproven statement that there were many other points he could have criticised, Louis Johnson wrote in an equally foolish manner. It is unfortunate that his desire to find fault caused such an unhappy descent to garbling. To the other. correspondents: I would suggest that "D.S." acquaint himself with the biological development of the ‘caterpillar, and that "D.G." refrain from criticism until he is capable of combining his flair for words with a little intelligent and constructive argument.
DAVID R.
WATSON
(Dunedin).
(inhis correspondence is now closed.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 12
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192"TO A JET PILOT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 12
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