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Pedro Poitevin 11-11-2015 04:03 PM

The Sphere, humorously
 
What is the Sphere like? Here's a little palindromic answer:

Ten nosy men editing nitid enemy sonnet.

Any other lipogrammatic (or formal) descriptions?

Pedro

Ed Shacklee 11-11-2015 04:59 PM

Brilliant, Pedro. I confess I had to look up "nitid," though, which spellcheck would very much like to be "knitted."

Best,

Ed

John Whitworth 11-11-2015 05:31 PM

Wht a lovely word, Pedro. Your talent shines nitid. Chain mail is presumably nitid knitted armour.

Ed Shacklee 11-11-2015 05:46 PM

I wonder if it's Scottish. "It's a braw bricht nitid moonlicht nicht the nicht." At any rate, great word, and an even better anagram.

John Whitworth 11-11-2015 05:59 PM

The Sphere’s esteemed members whenever, wherever they be, pen resplendent metred verses, sweet sestets, perfect tercet, vehement sentences, les belles letters en vers. Let’s be celebrant. These clever excellent he-men, she-men, deft yet never lewd refresh.

Martin Parker 11-12-2015 10:11 AM

Subject to a final check I suspect that "Eratosphere For Poetry" is an anagram for Poor Poetry Safer There."

Oh, dear!

But maybe it is a warning of the level of criticism hurled at many of those who hoped they had written something better.


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