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The column reflects on the passing of the (mainly female) fashion in Poland for asking others to write poems to be remembered by in your scrapbook or notebook. It mocks the sentimental style of this type of poem, and offers some humorous examples.
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English translation of the title: Of Poetry and Scrapbooks or 'And I'll Carve you'
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Editor's note: 'Kurier Zachodni', Perth, January 1990.
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In Polish, the verb 'wyrżnąć' means to slaughter, but can also mean to carve roughly, in this case, out of marble.
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The column includes an illustration of someone writing clumsily with a gigantic pen in a scrapbook or notebook (p. 30).
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O poezji i pamiętnikach czyli 'a ja cię wyrżnę'
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