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07-16-2014, 06:48 AM
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Should I Write a Sonnet?
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07-16-2014, 07:43 AM
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Funny. Thanks for linking to it, Tim.
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07-16-2014, 08:16 AM
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I always suspected I had a writer's block when it came to sonnets, but now I see I am actually blocked, several ways.  Thanks, Tim.
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07-16-2014, 10:02 AM
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Ed, You should try anyway  . Thanks for the link.
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07-16-2014, 10:23 AM
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Having written over 400 sonnets, I see now that I should have spent all that time and effort on flarf instead.
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07-16-2014, 12:10 PM
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WTF is Flarf?
I've just spent all day writing a sonnet full of German words. I don't know any German. Or I THOUGHT I didn't.
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07-16-2014, 01:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by John Whitworth
WTF is Flarf?
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I had to Google it. And frankly, even after reading the Wikipedia entry, I still couldn't tell you. Honestly, I don't know if I've read an entry that says so much without giving a real answer...
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I've just spent all day writing a sonnet full of German words. I don't know any German. Or I THOUGHT I didn't.
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I'm sure it's full of schadenfreude over the sturm und drang amid this zeitgeist.
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07-16-2014, 01:36 PM
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Flarf bears the same relationship to Exquisite Corpse as does solitary masturbation to group sex.
The composition of a sonnet, however, gives more satisfaction than any of those, being a mindful, fruitful one-to-one intercourse between man and muse.
Trust me.
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07-16-2014, 03:14 PM
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FOUR HUNDRED sonnets, Shaun? Heck, I need to go and lie down in a darkened room. (Call myself a poet?  )
I'm with you on "Flarf'', and this entry on Wikipaedia made me want to lie down AND go and seek the help of a psychiatrist:
If both (conceptual poetry and flarf) are compelled by what we might term impoetic language, flarf seems interested in discovering the poetic within that field, finding the excess and alterity that once defined poetic language but now must be found elsewhere, within the circuits of ersatz fame and junkspeech, within the anonymized and reshuffled errancies of various machinic protocols (whether it is the Google search algorithm, or a purported human adapting herself to the imperatives of a virtual chatroom.
WTF?  Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb...
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07-16-2014, 04:07 PM
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I'm sure it's full of schadenfreude over the sturm und drang amid this zeitgeist.[/quote]
My sehnsucht resists such gleichschaltung
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