A Hint

Readers have been classified as common or dear from time immemorial; it would be safe to say I am not looking for just any reader. This has been done before too as a matter of fact: in the Steppenwolf, the protagonist stumbles upon a pamphlet that begins with "Not for Everybody."

There are a number of intelligence tests, e.g. http://mensa-test.com/; however, the slightest difficulty with these perhaps is the fact the population are getting used to them.

It seems to me they also do not measure something vital, e.g. creativity. Poetry, or poetic speech, is great precisely because it does not say it all - it merely hints to the big unknowns, like http://minijaturist.net/2.pdf. I once did a poem with the imaginary white-on-white final stanza line that is supposed to reveal it all - a neat trick - but this is precisely the point: is a poem what little black ink there is or the white around it?

There are works on what is happening to taste too, with the ascent of human rights proving positive developments in one sphere can have dire effects in another - http://www.amazon.co.uk/rebelion-masas-Jose-Ortega-Gasset/dp/8467031786/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&qid=1318084569&sr=8-34.

Then again, there are those who claim we had been set rigid right from the start: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0714508799/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE.

I have once been told never to finish with a quote. Why on Earth not?

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Bill Cosby (1937 - )"

Davor Juričić, 8 October 2011