I like this one in particular, Dominic, and just read the poem a couple of times
before I even noticed the note about the headline; its sharpness is independent
of its context!
Best,
Rebecca
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>Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:20:42 +0000
>From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Half Cocks: I've Not Heard It Called That Before
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>MAKE HISTORY COMPULSORY; drop science
>at whim. Reschedule languages. Combine
>music & P.E. with marching bands.
>
>Forbid auto-didactics, solitary
>play, furtive conniving with the muses.
>Is there something you'd like to share
>
>with the rest of us? Assuredly
>not. Watch as I ply self-assurance
>tenuously into labyrinthine rage.
>
>* * *
>
>Today's online BBC News has a headline: MAKE HISTORY COMPULSORY -
>TORIES. I always rather liked studying history, but even so.
>
>I treat P.E. here as one word.
>
>Dominic
>
>--
>// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
>// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
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