Yes, suck is so pejorative these days. In terms of poetry, when somebody
says someone's or their own work "sucks" - I suspect, going back to the
'nursing' connection - it suggests there's been a malfunction of some
terrible sort with the Muse (or even one's own poor Mom back way when).
Or maybe, from a contrary point of view, "it sucks" suggests work hampered
big time by some infantile obsession with mom's boobs that gets in the way
of work that stands (like an adult - haha) on its own. Or just an
environment in which no one is pulling their weight, and things are sinking,
"slurping" down into the depths.
Dante saw more than a few souls sucked down into the slurping, bubbling
depths.
Suck if I know. I do know now I have to get to work.
I do not know that nobody - to my knowledge - has yet to give a name to the
Tsunami.
S
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
> Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>> Google sucks.
>>
>> (Or do We suck Google?)
>>
>> Some of those, Rebecca, were Google sucking good!
>>
>> Stephen V
>> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>>
>>
> Sucking?
>
> Gentleman named Mike Feder who used to host a show on WBAI in New York,
> called "Hard Work." He was (may still be) a storyteller and
> monologist. One of the few guys I could listen to doing nothing but
> talking, an hour at a time. I don't do comparisons. Was he better than
> Spaulding Gray? No idea.
>
> Feder years ago during his first(?) marriage talked on-air about common
> descriptors. I am paraphrasing. "It sucks," he says. "Does anyone
> think about that expression? I watch my wife as she nurses our baby.
> The baby sucks on my wife. It's beautiful to see, what happens between
> them. Makes me look differently at how we use that sort of language."
>
> Google sucks what? Who sucks what? What does "suck" mean? It doesn't
> quite suggest nursing, does it? The way it's used it doesn't quite
> suggest oral sex, either. The sound of dirty water going down a clogged
> drain? Someone inhaling on a joint? The slurpy sound of someone trying
> to get soup into his mouth without spilling half of it on the table?
> Then why not "It slurps"?
>
> Can you tell I don't have enough to do today since everyone's out?
>
> Ken
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