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07-14-2015, 06:33 AM
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Stallings, "The Trials of Greece"
Alicia has just posted the start of a Canto of hers here. Wonderful stuff!
Duncan
PS Dear Mod, please correct my title!
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07-14-2015, 07:12 AM
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Thank you Duncan! Great work. Funny as well (darkly).
Title corrected.
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07-14-2015, 07:20 AM
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Not entirely sure about the punning ending--"Bull" for "bull$#!t has mythological resonance but loses the important explosive power of the actual swear word. But that's a quibble in a section of a poem that indicates a new, fruitful direction for Alicia.
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07-14-2015, 07:31 AM
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The "Bull" at the end is a clever pun, imo, and added to the force of the ending.
I greatly enjoyed this, and could easily have gone on for more of it.
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07-15-2015, 01:56 PM
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This is much more clever than the law allows.
I luv it! Snarky, full of good stuff (like Porphyrius the Charioteer [he's only implicit, though]). La la. No need for imbecilic coprolalia.
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07-15-2015, 02:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Allen Tice
No need for imbecilic coprolalia.
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I love a gratuitous insult in the afternoon!
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07-15-2015, 03:02 PM
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Great, Duncan, thanks. First-rate. Glad to see a long-time favorite in st. 6 -- though some on this site took offense.
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07-15-2015, 04:23 PM
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Thanks for the shout-out, Duncan.
Love that docta puella.
Last edited by Janice D. Soderling; 07-15-2015 at 04:31 PM.
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07-15-2015, 04:57 PM
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"How bitter-sweet is/Poetry" indeed. This is masterful -- simultaneously comic and tragic, ancient and modern, foreign and domestic.
I'm persnickety enough to wonder aloud whether that delightful "occupation" joke would work in German and/or Greek. Of course, native speakers of those two languages might have only English in common, so maybe we should all just forget I mentioned it.
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07-15-2015, 08:09 PM
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Just wonderful, all the way through. And thanks, Duncan, for the call-out.
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