Hank cannot hear poetry ('poetry blindness') (2025)
story · status: told 1× · last event: mentioned (2025-09-09)
John jokes that Hank cannot hear poetry; in September 2025 he apologized to Hank after reciting a line of it.
About: poetry (concept)
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | told | Hank says that in the episode John read him a poem and Hank confided that he cannot hear poetry. | Does Anyone Else Have This? 00:00:00 |
| 2025-09-09 | mentioned | After reciting a line of poetry, John apologizes to Hank because he knows Hank cannot hear poetry. (playful) | Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better 00:03:24 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank guesses, admitting he is talking out of his butt, that his trouble with poetry has to do with the very hard work his brain did early on to understand spoken and written words. (hedged) — 00:00:00
- 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank wonders whether forcing effort is part of the point of poetry, adding that he does not know and that it seems hard for him but not for John. (hedged) — 00:00:58
- 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank says that if there is any truth here, which there probably is not, listening to poetry as an adult might help him understand what language was like for himself at six, seven and eight. (hedged) — 00:01:27
- 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank recalls going to poetry readings when he was in a writing program and having no idea what happened. — 00:02:26
- 2025-08-29 · Does Anyone Else Have This? — Hank names his condition 'poetry blindness', says it is a real phenomenon, and wonders whether he is alone in it. — 00:02:26