On Feb 5, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Donal McEvoy wrote: > A telling tale. Tax funded poetry prizes (like the Staffordshire Poetry > Competition at which we did "Look". Fibonacci was a merchant and Heraclitus > had something to say but nothing as important as the poet - remember? "See". > ) are one way we can reach out to these unfortunates, and in some cases we > may even provide for them by way of sinecures within academic institutions. > There they may teach subject-matter, and work at producing more work, in a > secure environment - one where issues of quality can only rarely endanger > public safety and even then only on the very smallest of scales. The > importance of what they are doing must not be at all challenged - in the > present century that remains the central and continuing challenge - to ensure > we are still approaching them, and dealing with them, in the most humane of > ways. > > Donal > Ex-President: Bad Poets' Society As far as I know, there are no tax-funded prizes for wotsits or twofers. The Aberdeen Angus Bipartisan International Institute for Studies Studies is, however, currently at the preliminary planning stage for a conceptual sketch of a working party charged with preparing for the possibility of studying how to institute a sinecure. David Ritchie, Artist Without Portfolio