wilco
replying on On the Discovery of High Noon and The Devil in a Glass Jar. by MacFrantic
5 May 2004, 7:14 PM
Obviously Mitch wasn't in Cedar Grove, TN for the 'Great Frog Attack of '76'.
You need something more Florida-specific; it doesn't necessarily have to be where you were. "Volusia" is that empty stretch south of Daytona. Or "Lakeland" on I-4. Or "Oceola" on 192 between Melbourne and Orlando.
If you asked me, I'd say "Everglades Parkway," whether it happened there or not.
"Melbourne to Brunswick" perhaps? Great Idea. I looked at the map. Lousy names.
Thanks for all the comments, everyone. This new job is so weird. Today I stocked all the new lawn gnomes.
BTW, any suggestions for titles?
okay
You still need commas or periods at the end of each line.
that would be "upholsterer's"
Which Russian poet did you have in mind?
My intent however was a sprung rhythm where just the accented syllables are counted, not a syllabo-tonic one where they're all counted
I've tried justifying (the printer's term might be more fitting than the uphulsterer's) the lines that way above.
Russian's one of the three languages I was born into (the others are french and english)
My serious cheat suggestion: Just give it the name of a small Florida-sounding town or county just off the interstate -"Ocalacala" or something, but not made-up.
You'd do Lorca's rhythm better if you wrote something more like:
I want the white water to rest with no bed
I want for the wind to be left without dells
You might at least go 12-syllabic. I see you've (roughly) done it later on, but the first two lines are glaringly off-beat. And the trick of expanding the english line with _____ and/or _____ at the end three stanzas in a row kind of shows. And Lorca punctuated throughout, hijo.
And my one other criticism: you might consider an exciting writer for once. How's your Russian? Some recent Russian poets are totally ace.
Yo kno thlat feelingg wen your lafghing so hrd its impsobble too ttype
What you're saying isn't relevant. The question isn't, and has never been, whether something "really, really" can be verified to be true. It's obvious and uninteresting that most things can't.
The point about verification and falsification is the unwillingness of soul-believers to name verification and falsification conditions. If you'd taken any time at all to read the discussion before leaping in with your dreamy proclamations, you'd have seen that.
The question is: Are soul believers prepared to give observable conditions C such that if C obtain they will stop believing in souls; if so, what are they, and if not, why not? That's not a question to you, by the way. It's a question to the soul-believers, e.g. Joe-Joe. Who probably won't even read this.
If reading further was likely to lead me to an end, we would all own the book and would probably read the last page first.
Its hardly rocket science:
1) the relevance of verifiability is that it makes a comment on the verifiability of things, nothing more.
to suggest that verifiability has relevance on the thing itself is an article of belief.
2) There is no base unit in science, no truth. Take the smallest particle in the universe, every time one takes a more detailed look the picture becomes more blurred. There is never a point at which the smallest particle changes from something to nothing. The idea of a particle as infinitely small.
I kept one 'cos I'm broke.
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replying on Beard my Homemade Negro Jesus (Improved! With AIDS!) by Everyone
5 May 2004, 2:27 PM
Here's one
Fraser
Allonby
Board (of)
Innumerable
Offenses
The F.A.B.I.O.
I thought it said Eric fucking Stoli....oooopsie.
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replying on On the Discovery of High Noon and The Devil in a Glass Jar. by MacFrantic
5 May 2004, 2:17 PM
I'm sorry it wasn't you who wrote the frog thing. Just the name alone puts my asthma into overtime.