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Introscimible
William Makepeace Thackeray
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley George Washington Carver Marjorie Merriweather Post Charles Lutwidge Dodgson Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aimee Semple McPherson Kenesaw Mountain Landis James Montgomery Flagg Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Capt. Robert Falcon Scott Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cardinal Cushing Willard Van Orman Quine Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Augustus Saint Gaudens Hans Christian Andersen Isabella Stewart Gardner Sylvia Townsend Warner Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jean Jacques Rousseau James Fenimore Cooper Daniel Patrick Moynihan Robert Louis Stevenson Lucy Maud Montgomery Roy Chapman Andrews Johann Sebastian Bach Gerard Manley Hopkins John Kenneth Galbraith John Greenleaf Whittier Arthur Ochs Sulzberger William Jennings Bryan Alfred North Whitehead Julie Nixon Eisenhower Alexander Graham Bell Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Frederick Law Olmsted Margaret Bourke White Edna St. Vincent Millay William Vaughn Moody Albert Payson Terhune Oliver Wendell Holmes James Whitcomb Riley James Jesus Angleton Harriet Beecher Stowe Ralph Waldo Emerson Farrah Fawcett Majors Doris Kearns Goodwin Erich Maria Remarque Norman Vincent Peale Dame Margot Fonteyn John Maynard Keynes Federico García Lorca George Bernard Shaw Isaac Bashevis Singer Elisabeth Kubler Ross Katherine Anne Porter Engine Charlie Wilson Andrew Lloyd Webber Edgar Rice Burroughs Edward Bulwer Lytton William Dean Howells Margaret Wise Brown Adam Clayton Powell William Cullen Bryant Henry David Thoreau James Clerk Maxwell Ruth Bader Ginsburg John Crowe Ransom John Horton Conway Marcus Porcius Cato Franz Joseph Haydn Thomas Hart Benton Sugar Ray Robinson Josiah Willard Gibbs Robert Penn Warren Ivy Compton Burnett John Singer Sargent Edith Sackville West Richard Henry Dana George Dubya Bush William Butler Yeats Robert Beverly Hale Timothy Garton Ash Arthur Hugh Clough Laura Ingalls Wilder Oliver Hazard Perry Diamond Jim Brady Peter Bent Brigham Henry Cabot Lodge Olivia Newton John Stephen Jay Gould Hugh Trevor Roper Frank Lloyd Wright Yves Saint Laurent Peter Paul Rubens Sarah Orne Jewett John Foster Dulles Clare Boothe Luce Joyce Carol Oates Rose Mary Woods Martin Luther King Jorge Luis Borges Murray Gell Mann Louisa May Alcott Francis Scott Key Carl Gustav Jung John Jacob Astor Ford Madox Ford Mary Baker Eddy Julia Ward Howe Jean Paul Sartre Chiang Kai Shek Edgar Allen Poe Lady Jane Grey Alan Jay Lerner John Stuart Mill Wild Bill Hickok Dick Van Dyke Billy Sol Estes Jan van Eyck Choe En Lai Le Duc Tho |
Intrinsically Evanescent
Introscimible by Jack Land
William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley George Washington Carver Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenesaw Mountain Landis Capt. Robert Falcon Scott Francine du Plessix Gray Hans Christian Andersen Augustus Saint Gaudens James Fenimore Cooper Robert Louis Stevenson Roy Chapman Andrews Johann Sebastian Bach Gerard Manley Hopkins John Kenneth Galbraith John Greenleaf Whittier Alfred North Whitehead William Carlos Williams Alexander Graham Bell Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Frederick Law Olmsted Edna St. Vincent Millay William Vaughn Moody Albert Payson Terhune Oliver Wendell Holmes James Whitcomb Riley James Jesus Angleton Harriet Beecher Stowe Ralph Waldo Emerson Farrah Fawcett Majors Norman Vincent Peale Dame Margot Fonteyn John Maynard Keynes George Bernard Shaw Engine Charlie Wilson Andrew Lloyd Webber Edgar Rice Burroughs William Dean Howells Margaret Wise Brown Adam Clayton Powell William Cullen Bryant Henry David Thoreau James Clerk Maxwell John Crowe Ransom Katherine Ann Porter Lady Ottoline Morrell Erle Stanley Gardner Sugar Ray Robinson Josiah Willard Gibbs Robert Penn Warren John Singer Sargent Richard Henry Dana George Dubya Bush William Butler Yeats Robert Beverly Hale Laura Ingalls Wilder Oliver Hazard Perry Peter Bent Brigham Henry Cabot Lodge Olivia Newton John Claire Boothe Luce Frank Lloyd Wright Peter Paul Rubens Joyce Carol Oates Martin Luther King Louisa May Alcott Francis Scott Key Mary Baker Eddy Carl Gustav Jung John Jacob Astor Ford Madox Ford Jean Paul Sartre Edgar Allen Poe John Stuart Mill Wild Bill Hickok Billy Sol Estes |
"Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" is a cheat, since you didn't use titles for anyone else. If you left it out, would the poem still make sense? :)
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Eddington, Scott, Fonteyn and Morrell
Have all been granted their titles as well... The poem's title's interesting, too. I found it on a group website but when I tried to link to it - guess what - it had been deleted. |
Thoreau's name at birth was David Henry Thoreau.
Thoreau & Bullfrogs (As Seen by a Local Farmer) "'Henry D. Thoreau -- Henry D. Thoreau,' jerking out the words with withering contempt. 'His name ain't no more Henry D. Thoreau than my name is Henry D. Thoreau. And everybody knows it, and he knows it. His name's Da-a-vid Henry and it ain't never been nothing but Da-a-vid Henry. And he knows that! Why one morning I went out in my field across there to the river, and there, beside that little old mud pond, was standing Da-a-vid Henry, and he wasn't doin' nothin' but just standin' there -- lookin' at that pond, and when I came back at noon, there he was standin' with his hands behind him just lookin' down into that pond, and after dinner when I come back again if there wan't Da-a-vid standin' there just like as if he had been there all day, gazin' down into that pond, and I stopped and looked at him and I says, "Da-a-vid Henry, what air you a-doin'?" And he didn't turn his head and he didn't look at me. He kept on lookin' down at that pond, and he said, as if he was thinkin' about the stars in the heavens, "Mr. Murray, I'm a-studyin' -- the habits -- of the bullfrog!" And there that darned fool had been standin' -- the livelong day -- a-studyin' -- the habits -- of the bull-frog!'" Quoted in Walter Harding, Thoreau as Seen by His Contemporaries. |
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But I love the message of this poem, that we should all proudly display our middle names. |
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But I enjoyed this; it's amusing and clever. Jayne |
I think the message of the poem is the answer to this cryptic clue:
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I see dead people. But are they all dead? Must I google? The title is inscrutable. I noticed that Annie titled her first response "Intrinsically Evanescent" which could be a way of describing what the list represents. (I would add "Eclectic".) Is it a celebration of middle names as Roger says? (I don't think so. Bill Hickok was not born Wild. Nor does "Dubya" appear on George W. Bush's birth certificate.) Is it the tapered look? Is it randomness? Is it pointless randomness? It is shape-driven. There is no rhyme or reason to it except that it tapers; or what we arbitrarily impose on it. It is anti-alphabetical. It made me count. The list reminds me in its own way of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover with the montage of famous faces. There are 71 faces on the cover. This has 78 names. It could be that the N is reciting the names as a kind of scrolling through some list that has significance in some way, shape or form. Long story: I saw a play entitled, The Method Gun here in Boston a few years back. It was in a Black Box Theatre that sat maybe 75-100 people. As the audience filed in there was a tiny yellow pencil and small square of paper on each seat. Instructions were given to write down in clear letters the name of someone in our lives who had impacted us in a good way. They were then collected from us before the performance began. The play itself was a fantastic piece of meta-art that explored a theatre troupe under the direction (and duress) of a man who used a controversial technique called "The Method Gun" to teach his acting students the art of acting). As the performance came to an end, a screen illuminated the back wall of the stage and a slow scroll appeared of all the names collected from the audience. It was a profound moment for me. I waited for the name I had written down. When it appeared at the top off the screen and slowly scrolled down and out of sight I cried. I don't know if this poem might do that to someone reading it. I hope so. I'd suggest double spacing the poem/list. Incidentally, Jack, you yourself are eclectic here on Eratosphere. Why so mystere? I don't mind it, but why? . |
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https://groups.google.com/g/sci.phys.../c/NOzqcUvM_M4 Likewise, AAPC has been shut down. https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/ |
Ah - there you are, Jack. Yes, that first link was where I found the word. I wondered whether it was a variation of intermiscible and tried to link it to the text, but without success. Since you're here, can you enlighten me?
Do respond. At the moment we are amusing one another and having fun, which is the purpose of this forum and you wouldn't want Jayne to think you are cutting corners and lock it like she did to Worst Case Scenarios three years ago. Come on in, Jack. My own subtitle - Intrinsically Evanescent - was a reference to the ephemeral quality of so many of your threads. You do keep deleting them (as you did with Dozer mand, Dozer man !!) so I stole this one and froze it, to keep it alive. |
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The meaning of this may be flying right over my head and I apologize for asking if that’s the case, but why did you post this? I’ve spent some time trying to crack the code but keep coming up clueless. Is this meant to be a poem? It's clearly a list of names. It’s posted on Drills & Amusements so it could be a few things: “Funny & serious poetry exercises (metrical and non-metrical poetry); Funny and serious Fiction and Art exercises.” I’ve combed the list of names and can’t detect anything that gives it cohesion. The only thing I get from it is shape. Again, if I’m exposing myself to be ignorant of something then I’m ok with that. It happens from time to time : ) . |
Thank you, Jack. I was wondering about "intermiscible" because miscibility indicates the property of substances to mingle to form - a solution.
The addition of the prefix "inter" pushed me toward the assumption that individual components of the poem might be so combined, rather than taken as a whole. I tend, though, to the opinion expressed in comment #8, while sharing Jim's confusion, but will give you the benefit of the doubt. And so, since you are titling your poem in French, I challenge you in the words of Léo Ferré - Poète! Vos papiers! |
Great concept for a serial killer poem. Irremiscible?
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Front page name count: 125 Names on this page omitted for reasons of graphic design and repetition ( 13 Williams total ). Name count: 53 Total: 178 Thomas Babington Macaulay Jacquiline Kennedy Onassis William McChesney Martin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Antoine de Saint Exupéry Francine du Plessix Gray William Randolph Hearst William Rowan Hamilton Robert Woods Johnson Mary Chapin Carpenter James McNeill Whistler Stephen Vincent Benét William Henry Harrison William Lloyd Garrison James Gould Cozzens John Singleton Copley Bonnie Prince Charlie Neal deGrasse Tyson Francis Ford Coppola Percy Bysshe Shelley Henri Cartier Bresson William Sloane Coffin David Foster Wallace Erle Stanley Gardner C. K. Scott Moncrieff Camille Saint-Saëns Claude Levi Strauss Lady Caroline Lamb John Quincy Adams William Howard Taft John Wesley Hardin Charles Eliot Norton Edgar Lee Masters Mary Todd Lincoln John Hay Whitney John Philip Sousa James Earl Jones Van Wyck Brooks Mary Tyler Moore Gina Lollobrigida John Paul Jones Henry Clay Frick Jelly Roll Morton Tim Berners Lee Pee Wee Reese Eva Marie Saint Jerry Lee Lewis Billie Jean King Mary Jo Salter Nat King Cole Jon Bon Jovi Sun Yat Sen There is some dirty toilet humor on page 5. Viewer discretion is advised. |
Could you indicate where the new and changed names fit into your concrete pillar, Jack?
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Billy the Kid
Attila the Hun Morgan le Fay Jack the Ripper Ivan the Terrible Charles the Bald Jude the Obscure Grogan the Digger Catherine the Great Walter the Penniless Ethelred the Unready Edward the Confessor Richard the Lion Heart Peter Bruegel the Elder Edward the Black Prince Tom Tom the Piper’s Son Hans Holbein the Younger |
Jack the Unfathomable
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The Slough of Despond
The Wheel of Fortune The March of Dimes The Bridge of Sighs The Diet of Worms The Sack of Rome The Wife of Bath The Plain of Jars The Bay of Pigs The Isle of Man |
The Jack of Clubs
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What about another list for the modest writers who use only their initials? C.S. Lewis, W.H. Auden, A.E. Stallings et al. |
Lady Jane Grey wasn't in the original list that RogerBob commented on, though, Gail. Incidentally, do you have any ideas as to what Sir Spring-heel Jack is up to here? (boing boing boing...)
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F. Lee Bailey
C. Wright Mills L. Frank Baum E. Howard Hunt G. Gordon Liddy H. Rider Haggard N. Scott Momaday J. William Fulbright O. My Sainted Aunt! R. Buckminster Fuller T. Coraghessan Boyle W. Somerset Maugham Alan a’ Dale John of Gaunt Ponce de León Charles de Gaulle Lawrence of Arabia Catherine de’ Medici St. Ignatious of Loyola Madame de Pompadour Mary Queen of Scots Eleanor of Aquitaine Simon de Montfort William of Occam Tom o’ Bedlam Helen of Troy Joan of Arc |
U. Take The Fifth?
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Wasteheads weirdomorphs wrongdoers and lone wolves
Hippies groupies Deadheads and freaks dangling in trees Dilettantes mountebanks charlatans and armchair experts Misanthropes troglodytes tortfeasors and paranoid isolatos Adventurers pathfinders survivalists and assorted passersby Protagonists existentialists ideologues and dramatis personæ Necromancers poltergeists clairvoyants and pseudointellectuals Minnesingers costermongers poetasters and wandering minstrels Nativists populists tribalists pocketing the Viking Portable Nietzsche Anarchists iconoclasts hedonists and infantile deviationists to the left Non-student agitators and radical feminist multicultural deconstructionists |
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Now we're getting somewhere! To that let me add: Chain-smoking whiskey drinking blue eyed peaky wearing war torn son of gypsy death . |
J. Paul Getty
J. Edgar Hoover J. Alfred Prufrock J. William Fulbright J. Robbie Robertson J. Ramsay MacDonald J. Robert Oppenheimer |
J Paul Getty
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J Arthur Rank
and perhaps Betjeman's Miss J Hunter Dunn |
James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree
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Is it not time somebody told him the truth about his mother and the Deliveroo man?
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l'Hôpital’s rule
Halley’s comet Aesop’s Fables Kekulé’s dream Ockham’s razor Pascal’s triangle Hobson’s choice Planck’s constant Maxwell’s demon |
Darn - I was hoping for a Land's End.
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This game is getting oddly addictive
Avogadro’s number Prisoner’s dilemma Schrödinger's cat Gambler’s fallacy Bayes’ theorem Zeno’s arrow Sod’s law |
Avagadro’s number
Schrödinger’s cat Hobson’s choice Ockham’s razor l'Hôpital’s rule Pavlov’s dog Ohm’s law |
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15. Check spelling of “naval”
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the Carnot cycle the Fosbury Flip the Richter scale the Rosetta stone the Maginot Line the Coriolis force the Marshall Plan the Zeeman effect the Rhind papyrus |
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Is this the same Fosbury who flopped? Must you flip in order to have flopped? . |
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