[Allen Tice]

I've just had a strophic lyric accepted in The Terrible Print Magazine One Dare Not Name Because The Thread Will Be Locked Within Fifteen Posts (And The Thread Might Go To Fifteen Posts, Judging By Previous Events).

[W.F. Lantry]

Allen,

Congrats, whatever the venue. I can't quite tell from your text what it is, but I'm too well-mannered to pry. Hope things work out!

Thanks,

Bill

[David Rosenthal]

I think I know the journal. Congrats.

David R.

[Allen Tice]

Thank you. There is a way of finding out indirectly what the journal might be if one uses all the resources available to a signed-on Eratosphere member and pokes and persists a wee bit, but my irenic sense tells me to say no more than that the title of my piece is Bring Roses. As to the look and feel of what this publisher puts out, it is, generally speaking, exquisite yet not overwhelming. The type is superbly clear, the font choice unusually sophisticated, and the poems are allowed to get the full attention of the reader, since the editor eschews visual clutter and distracting graphics. The "book" (that is, the magazine, in editor speak) is a work of art in itself, going beyond the customary in classic good taste. You don't believe me? Then you haven't seen it. More's the pity.

[Janice D. Soderling]

Allen's cryptic message about forbidden magazines caused me to confuse his publisher with another.

The magazine in which Allen's poem will appear is Think Jounal and in no way do I impute it to be on a level implied by my previous post, now deleted.

I offer an apology to the editors of Think Journal, but I am of two minds about offering one to Allen, as his announcement seens intended (IMO but I may be wrong about this as well) to confuse and be a bit coy as though this journal could not be named by name at Eratosphere. I willl however extend my congratulations to him about his acceptance.

I hope this comment from me will delimit damage to an innocent journal, its editor, and other contributors who share space with Allen. I hope also that we will see less vague and insinuatory comments in the future.

Janice (still speaking as a member and not as a moderator)

[Richard Epstein]

This is all too coy and cutesy for me to decipher. I first concluded that it must be a journal which advocated animal abuse , child pornography and free verse and so could not be named in decent company. But Ms Soderling has called it "an innocent journal" (as opposed to a...? What is a guilty journal? The Journal of Freudian Dream Interpretation?), and that seems to rule out my initial hunch.

Unless this is merely self promotion, cleverly designed as an appeal to prurient curiosity, why not just name the damned thing?

RHE

[Janice D. Soderling]

Richard, the name of the perfectly respectable journal publishing Allen's poem is given in my post above. I want to make it clear that I intended no slur on Think Journal, which Allen's announcement unnecessarily refers to as:

"The Terrible Print Magazine One Dare Not Name Because The Thread Will Be Locked Within Fifteen Posts (And The Thread Might Go To Fifteen Posts, Judging By Previous Events). "

There is no reason whatsoever why he cannot name it.

[David Rosenthal]

(I deciphered Allen's hints and secretly named the journal in my initial, unedited, congratulatory post. Oh what a clever boy am I!)

(David R.)

[Janice D. Soderling]

Yes, you were clever, but alas, too obscure for my unclever mind.

[Allen Tice]

Well David, you did pull out a plum, and I saw you doing it in your premier post on this now-ten-reply-long thread that shall not require locking.

There never has been, nor shall be, of course, any barrier to naming Think Journal on Eratosphere, and there never would have been any locking of threads about it in the first place as far as I can see, except that people lost their good judgment. Yet threads were locked because of intemperate remarks. Someone can do the math.

(Let me say that I have no intention of evoking anything on Eratosphere about "him who ought never be named very often (and certainly not linked to!)" --- Voldemort. I guess too few people around this world know me well enough to understand that automatically. At first, I was curious in a zoological way about Voldemort, but quite respect his banishment here. Whatever merits Voldemort might seem to have round and about, on Eratosphere those merits manifest themselves as a bit like the charms of the mythic Sirens and Lorelei, who lured the guileless to doom with honeyed narcotic songs.)

In reply to my extremely close friend in Sweden, Janice, member and moderator both, there is no apology needed. I was busy elsewhere and never saw what you had a change of heart on, so Worry Not!
Of my own free will I elected to veil the venue because of the earlier history of commentary about it.

Think Journal is (and has been) a very nice venue. As they sing in greeting at "Hallands Nation" at Lund Univiserity, Sweden: Honi soit qui mal y pense
(footnote 6).

Be of good cheer everyone, especially Janice.