I've just submitted poetry to the New Yorker. Sent them biblical stuff, just a handful. There's no way, really.... but it's still worth a shot. (This from someone who says the lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math.)
the nerve!
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by a post on Stephanie Young's site about poetry and theater, but what intrigued me most was a few things she said about the process of submitting poetry. The poetry submission is usually faceless in various ways. Until one has... Read More
Yes, but sometimes we're willing to pay that "tax" because although we understand statistics, we also understand that if something is statistically possible (although unprobable) it may actually happen to us.
It's a difference between cold, factual knowledge, and the warmth of hope.
Thanks DrMeglet, that's what I'll say now every time I buy a lottery ticket. Having been responsible for producing Ontario's Public Library Statistics for 22 years I have been looking for some justification for spending so much on lottery tickets. Yeah it's the warmth of hope! I like it!
Nothing like negative temperatures to bring out the cold/warm metaphors in us all. Now go read _Left Hand Of Darkness_ again and really freeze.
=)