You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

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

[Via Graeme Wood via Reihan]

13 thoughts on “You Shouldn't Let Poets Lie to You

  1. 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?

  2. I was scared she was gonna touch a big charged capacitor.

    From her hair it looks like she did that.

  3. 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…

  4. 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.