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04-22-2014, 05:23 PM
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John, I thought your T.S. Eliot superb, incidentally. I'd be very surprised if you weren't a winner with that (but what do I know?) I can't for the life of me figure out the saurian reference, though.
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04-26-2014, 05:26 PM
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Thank you, Rob. I knew what I meant when I wrote it but I've forgotten. I'll get back to you on it.
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04-26-2014, 07:29 PM
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Emily Dickinson’s Rules for Writing:
1.−Tell it slant−
2. Capitalize−common Nouns−
3. Make the Lexicon− your only Companion−
4. –Dabble in linguistic surprise−
5.−Make the Abstract tangible−
6 .−Dwell in Possibility−
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04-27-2014, 01:24 AM
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Rob. I think 'saurian' is really about the way Eliot always seems so OLD, not to his actual appearance. Old and cold, don't you know. Does tht make sense?
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04-28-2014, 05:12 PM
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Not sure, John. Seems a tad obscure to me.
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04-28-2014, 06:22 PM
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C’mon, now -- if Eliot doesn’t seem lizard-y, are Radcliffe and Smith and McKellen not wizard-y?
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04-28-2014, 11:08 PM
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O Rob, all this OLD stuff... an old man in a dry month... why should the aged eagle stretch his wings...I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.. and dry stuff too... and desert stuff ... dust, dust, dust of dust..
Lizardy. Definitely. Tennyson is wizardy.
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04-29-2014, 03:42 AM
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Fair enough.
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04-29-2014, 10:24 AM
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Eliot's world-weary whinge, 'Why should the aged eagle spread his wings?' got short shrift from Edmund Wilson, who pointed out that the poet was barely in his 40s at the time.
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04-29-2014, 12:29 PM
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John, perhaps you were thinking of William Plomer's 'The Playboy of the Demi World: 1938'?
D'Arcy Honeybunn has 'The eyes of some old saurian in decay'
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