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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: Perfect. That little burst of cummings was esp. inspired.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Ah, robin, you are finely layered.
quote: Yeats, too? Bravo! Faith's revulsion, so redolent of excrement: what else could occur to me? Of all the tents love has pitched, she had to walk into this one, sweetheart... Well, perhaps malt will do more than Milton for her, robin ...if she drinks good single whiskey.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Yeats, too. O Do Not Love Too Long SWEETHEART, do not love too long:I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song. All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one. But O, in a minute she changed - O do not love too long, Or you will grow out of fashion Like an old song. This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-13-2005 08:44 PM
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
I knew the Houseman, but started with the Yeats, and riffed on Bogie with the sweetheart and the bar.
Just playin', robin.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
You're right, perfect match.
My predilections betray me...
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: Yeah, but it was 'Casablanca' too. It rocked. Look into your heart and continue to rock. Holmes, you're Holmes: I hardly know ye, but I love ya already. Robin: Ignore Holmes. One cannot constructively criticize a satire in which one plays a part. OED. This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-13-2005 09:51 PM This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-13-2005 09:52 PM
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
robin, that the satire is larded with apt literay allusions is wonderful. The test is that it works on its own terms, whether the reader catches the allusions or not.
I think I have most of them, but I was delighted to learn that what I thought was an early Yeats lyric was Whitman. What you are doing is fine. Dance with the muse that brung ya. This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-13-2005 10:01 PM This message has been edited by Omnivorous, 08-13-2005 10:02 PM
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: If you say actually one more time, I shall have to sound my Actual Horn. Don't make me do that.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: Barmaid, drinks all 'round (and put this smoky pete in RAZD's single barrel/single malt glass)...
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9
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quote: I refused to be chastised by anyone who doubles their exclamation points--that practice unfailingly correlates with intellectual and moral bankruptcy. In other words, what a maroon!!
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
robin:
quote: I'm sure he doesn't mean yours, schraf.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
quote: Is there no Viagra? Is there no scotch? Just look into your glass, and write. Jeez.
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Omnivorous Member Posts: 3991 From: Adirondackia Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Nighttrain writes: I find I cogitate best on the throne. Does that help?
Well, it helps me feel less alone.
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