Poor Parody actually
Reader comment on item: Parodying Khalil Gibran
in response to reader comment: Alan Jacobs parody

Submitted by Abu Nudnik (Canada), Oct 29, 2007 at 12:17

The Jacob's parody is nothing like brilliant - it's appalling prose masquerading as poetry. I know that's the point, but Gibran's stuff, though not great, is better than this. It's a bit juvenile and I enjoyed it in my juvenile years. It's that which made it popular amongst the young in the 60s. I don't see a green-lighting of infidelity from "drink not of the same cup" and all that. A little form in a relationship is what seems to be called for, some separation and distance to go with the intimacy and make it special. Not everything is political and even if it it is, the statement "everything's political" is political too.

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