This is too much:
"Poetry is harder to read than prose because
you have to read all the white stuff too."
--Anon.
On 5/8/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So do I. Fond, fading memories.
>
> Hal
>
> "Poetry is harder to read than prose because
> you have to read all the white stuff too."
> --Anon.
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On May 8, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Joseph Duemer wrote:
>
> > I think it's over. I have some fond memories, though.
> >
> > jd
> >
> > On 5/8/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm suddenly struck by the quality of the crowd I
> >> find myself in. Reminds me of a visit to a
> >> Parisian friend's home. After she'd put out the
> >> requisite peanuts and olives and opened a bottle
> >> she asked which I'd prefer, Spike Jones or Looney
> >> Tunes. It's good to know what the American
> >> Century's real accomplishments will have been once it's over.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> At 03:58 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
> >> >Precisely.
> >> >mj
> >> >
> >> >Mark Weiss wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>I was thinking about his famous comment on water: "Fish fuck in
> >> it."
> >> >>
> >> >>At 01:52 PM 5/8/2007, you wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>>Thus Fields's wished for gravestone
> >> >>>inscription, "On the whole, I'd rather be in
> >> >>>Philadelphia", is not of course some
> >> >>>profanation of the sacrosanctity of the Beyond
> >> >>>but a pious reminder (Philadelphia being a
> >> >>>kind of synecdoche of the Divine hereinafter
> >> >>>referred to) of Jane Lead's Message to the
> >> >>>Philadelphian Society, to wit: " I am your
> >> >>>/*Immanuel*,/ who am the Tree of Life, that
> >> >>>with variety of Fruits will you feed: and as
> >> >>>ye are a Fountain of Gardens unto me, so will
> >> >>>the golden Floods from pure Deity flow to water you throughout."
> >> >>>Amen.
> >> >>>mj
> >> >>>
> >> >>>Mark Weiss wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>Or a suddenly repentent WC Fields?
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Il ne faut pas toujours conter,
> >> >Citer,
> >> >Dater,
> >> >Mais écouter.
> >> >Il faut éviter l'emploi
> >> >Du moi, du moi, Voici pourquoi:
> >> >
> >> >Il est tyrannique,
> >> >Trop académique;
> >> >L'ennui, l'ennui
> >> >Marche avec lui.
> >> >
> >> >Marie-Françoise-Catherine de Beauveau, Marquise de Boufflets
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joseph Duemer
> > Professor of Humanities
> > Clarkson University
> > [sharpsand.net]
>
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