03-09-2014, 11:21 AM
Hmmm.........Now, Mrs Whipsicle, I do declare! As king --being reader -- I take so much from this: chiefly, one supposes, the subtext and layers of meaning . Undoubtedly one of the finest pieces of the past 100 hundred years. I doff my stove-pipe hat to you!
I was struck dumb by the metrical virtuosity -yes! Dumb, indeed I was! I began counting the dactyls, and marvelling at how many could be got into a cohesive line -- but weariness overcame me, especially after I concluded that you had not stuck to any fixed number per line; but then, that is where the grace and virtuosity come into play. So now, I have no care as to whether it was a dactylic arse, or an anapaestic one, or the American Trochaick Arse. It all blends into one.
Furthermore, and I should say as much to any man: one or two may try harder, to be funnier -- though even very recent history gainsays the chances of striving being the father of success.
As you may guess, I am still ploughing my way through Dickens, the Father of Prolixity. My lap-top got fucked, and now I'm trying to make sense of a new one. Gah! >
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I was struck dumb by the metrical virtuosity -yes! Dumb, indeed I was! I began counting the dactyls, and marvelling at how many could be got into a cohesive line -- but weariness overcame me, especially after I concluded that you had not stuck to any fixed number per line; but then, that is where the grace and virtuosity come into play. So now, I have no care as to whether it was a dactylic arse, or an anapaestic one, or the American Trochaick Arse. It all blends into one.
Furthermore, and I should say as much to any man: one or two may try harder, to be funnier -- though even very recent history gainsays the chances of striving being the father of success.
As you may guess, I am still ploughing my way through Dickens, the Father of Prolixity. My lap-top got fucked, and now I'm trying to make sense of a new one. Gah! >
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