Thanks, Doug. Good heavens, I'm up to 28 of these now! Only another 22 to go...
I've updated the page that collects them all together, in case
anyone's interested:
http://codepoetics.com/half_cocks/poem.html
"Well that's just great" is a great expression, a good example of what
Christopher Ricks calls an equitonal phrase (after Eliot's Mrs
Equitone), one that could go any one of a number of different ways.
"For great justice" is of course a line from All Your Base:
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/story.shtml
Dominic
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:58:46 -0700, Douglas Barbour
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Just to say, Dominic, that these always hit hard, & I think the
> 'baffle' of the 50 word limit is one of the things that makes them move
> so. And the way you get a start with a voice just starting to get mad,
> here....
>
> Doug
> On 19-Jan-05, at 6:31 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
> > Correct "correct" to "approved", as follows:
> >
> > WELL THAT'S JUST GREAT, on target
> > for great justice, infinite
> > justice even. Jubilation turns
> >
> > endlessly on a spindle, exultation's voice
> > becoming more wan with every pass
> > under the reading head. Extracting
> >
> > stricken whisperings from background noise
> > is an occult pursuit, and frowned upon. Consult
> > court entrail-sifters for approved prognosis.
> >
> > --
> > // Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
> > // bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
> >
> >
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> Department of English
> University of Alberta
> Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
> (780) 436 3320
> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
>
> The poet is ecstatic, having dreamt of this visit for weeks.
> He takes Erato's face, dribbling and wild, between his hands
>
> and kisses her gently as if she were a runaway teenager.
>
> Diana Hartog
>
--
// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
|