Kevin
Just read this thread for the first time and I began to wonder, does the muse with the whip ever go home? Or does she live at your place?
Kudos to you! I'm especially fond of the wimple/dimple rhyme. It could easily have been the instigation for the entire poem!
Tony said: "[W]riters who work at connecting with an audience within the constraints of a genre learn things about rhetoric and narrative..."
I learned something new in this thread, after looking up Clive's spelling of "highjacking" (the spelling looked so odd that I was suddenly seized by a desire to know the word's derivation): here's the derivation I found in my old Webster's:
[probably
hi (for
high) +
jack, v.]
That's it. I knew this would be a fitting detail to pass on to all here, especially in the thread that includes Clive's wonderfully "loopy":
[T]his must appear arcane and more than a little loopy...
Do you remember Kenneth Muir's "The rose, "Red Setter", Arthur sold as thyme"?
Clive, to answer your question: No, I don't remember it. Is there another thread one might consult for details?
Terese
[This message has been edited by Terese Coe (edited November 30, 2002).]