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Unread 06-16-2010, 07:07 AM
Elle Bruno Elle Bruno is offline
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Default Dee Cohen is soon changing....

Dear friends,
I am alerting the members of Eratosphere that I will be using a different name in the near future to post and comment.
Over the years, I've had several instances where my 'real life' overlapped too closely with my writer's life, making me regret that I didn't use a pseudonym to begin with here.
I have recently moved to a new town, and I believe it's important for me to start fresh in terms of keeping my worlds separated. The board's rules do ask members to use real names, but a few exceptions have been made for serious reasons, and I asked for one, and Alex has agreed.

Thanks, Dee, who will soon be posting as Elle Bruno
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Unread 06-16-2010, 10:17 AM
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The trouble with an alias like "Elle",
impressed upon a nest of Formalists,
is that it brings to mind a villanelle:

like Pavlov's dog, responding to a bell
I can't resist exploring all the twists
and troubles that an alias like El

Bruno signifies - it makes a swell
Spaghetti Western handle - sense resists,
but yet I fantasize my villanelle.

Though Witness and Protection don't quite gel,
the visions of El Bruno, and his fists,
(an hombre with an alias like "Elle"?)

persist in weaving their poetic spell,
and whistle through the pentametric mists
that often undermine a villanelle.

So flourish, Dee, wherever you may dwell,
but next time tell the Fed locationists
the trouble with an alias like "Elle"
is that it makes one write a villanelle.

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Unread 06-16-2010, 05:34 PM
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3 hrs and 10 minutes, from Dee's post -- which you may not have seen right away -- to yours. Took you long enough. You could place in steer wrestling contests at some of the smaller rodeos with a time like that.

This falls rather close to the peril of writing villanelles about writing villanelles that you just warned me about, but I guess any rule of poetry can be broken if you do it well enough: otherwise, if this is the result, remind me not to take your advice so seriously any more.

It needs a title, Michael, or at least it will if you plan to take it somewhere other than this thread, as -- once you excise Dee's real name -- you should. It's a gem.

Best,

Ed

P.S. Love the pentametric mists.

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Unread 06-16-2010, 06:33 PM
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Thanks, Ed. I am not the type to brag or preen, but will simply point out - for the record, of course, because of my concern with data - that this is a copy of the original response to Dee's identical notice on Non-Met, which I first posted in an earlier version on that Board one hour and 48 minutes after hers went up.

And thanks for the compliments, but what it is is a reasonably clever occasional poem - nothing more. It's clever, and clever is easy, but it's not particularly good. I prefer to go for good, and that takes more than a few hours - more normally in my case, the good ones fester over months or sometimes years. (But a confession and a warning - I am currently working on a villanelle tentatively titled PENNY TELLS ALL TO NY POST which is great fun, but will probably be more clever than good and take less than two years. It's about a deceitful slut who boozes and screws while her husband is off at war, and it weaves her phony weaving and unweaving through the repetends. If it ever works out, I owe you.)

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Unread 06-16-2010, 06:55 PM
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Now THAT'S an 'alt-history' Penelope with hair on her chest.
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Unread 06-19-2010, 07:18 AM
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You might have gone with Deke Owen, but Elle Bruno it is.

I'd be the last to criticize,

Bob
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