You Shouldn’t Let Poets Lie to You

by Will Wilkinson on November 13, 2008

This is delightful on so many levels, especially the conclusion.

[Via Graeme Wood via Reihan]

  • Resolved: Bjork = Most adorable human who has ever lived.
  • This house affirms the resolution!
  • Well then I'm moving out.
  • What the hell did I just watch and don't do that to me again.
  • I've always wondered where they put all the little people who populate the TV programs.
  • ds
    She's downright platonic in her hatred of poets. I'll stick with Nietzsche--doesn't he have something about how lies are necessary for life?
  • I was scared she was gonna touch a big charged capacitor.
  • anon
    I was scared she was gonna touch a big charged capacitor.

    From her hair it looks like she did that.
  • Jayson Virissimo
    Now if we could only pass a law that would prevent Icelandic poets from lying. I'll get my friends in Washington working on it...
  • webgrrl
    All poets are liars. We are of the Devil's party, after all. But nonetheless, some of what the poet said is true - the screen medium does place certain demands on the body and does affect comprehension, we know this from user interface research and human factors engineering.
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