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05-04-2009, 06:47 PM
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(That was kind of a joke, there, Janet. Step back from the canvas)
Last edited by Rick Mullin; 05-04-2009 at 06:55 PM.
Reason: left out "was"
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05-04-2009, 06:49 PM
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(...and I already revised it)
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05-04-2009, 07:04 PM
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You're lucky, I missed it ;-)
Ya know what? I didn't get Rick's joke.
I keep proving my point. I am infallible in my mistakes.
PS: Observe the posts below saying they wish the posts would stop. There's irony Humpty Dumpty.
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05-04-2009, 09:38 PM
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Jeez, did that little joke break up the party?
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05-04-2009, 10:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Janet Kenny
But just as every actor on the stage has an aura which other actors respect, so does every poem come with an aura of otherness which we ought to respect.
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I should have mentioned this before, so I'm trying to slip in under the wire as this thread winds down:
As a help to further contemplation of the lovely point Janet makes here--for which we might just have said "Thank you" and moved on--I highly recommend an essay by Howard Nemerov called "Speaking Silence" in Figures of Thought. It is almost shockingly apropos.
(For those who don't know this collection, rush out & buy it.)
Pat
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05-04-2009, 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Rick Mullin
Jeez, did that little joke break up the party?
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Oh, let it die, let it die!
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05-04-2009, 10:51 PM
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Not until you critique my poem, Chris.
Oh, all right. I'll let it die.~,:^)
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05-05-2009, 12:52 AM
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Did this conversation go as it always does? I haven't really been following it.
Commented on your poem elsewhere, Rick.
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05-05-2009, 03:22 AM
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Did this conversation go as it always does? I haven't really been following it.
Commented on your poem elsewhere, Rick.
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Of course.
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05-05-2009, 06:09 PM
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And Yahwah said
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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
By the way, I think someone should register at least passing shock and chagrin at the dissing of Walt Whitman, so I will do it. Walt Whitman was one of the towering geniuses of poetry, with various passages deserving to be incorporated into the Bible. I just thought I'd mention that. John is funnier, though.
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