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minotaur

Member since 2002 · Posted 20 Sep 2003 · 9 comments

keep one hand on the wall and turn to face the bull this child of ancient curse did work the daedalus machine and found you tugging thread all through these hidden halls keep in mind this thing is part man part bull and part maze

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[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 20-Sep-03/5:18 PM Reply

I don't get it. Is this supposed to be some kind of allegory or are you just giving some late advice to Theseus in all lower case?

[n/a] Bill Z Bub › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 20-Sep-03/5:27 PM Reply

yes.

[n/a] -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. › Bill Z Bub 20-Sep-03/6:49 PM Reply

Is it supposed to be some kind of allegory?

[n/a] Bill Z Bub › -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 23-Sep-03/9:32 AM Reply

Yes.

[8] horus8 20-Sep-03/7:37 PM Reply

Profound, but somehow the last stanza is too giving? Does that make any sense?

[9] razorgrin 22-Sep-03/11:41 AM Reply

Hot damn.

[8] ecargo 23-Sep-03/7:26 AM Reply

"Did work the daedalus machine"? (I know daedalus built the maze, but seems an odd way to put it.) Keenly rendered, B.Z.B., but it seems more poem fragment than poem.

[n/a] Bill Z Bub › ecargo 23-Sep-03/9:35 AM Reply

It is a fragment. I plan on expanding it eventually.
The key to the (not really well thought out) metaphor is:
daedalus machine = computer/internet

[8] ecargo › Bill Z Bub 23-Sep-03/7:59 PM Reply

like the concept--look forward to seeing what you do with it.