[ExI] quote of the day - on fame

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 18:57:04 UTC 2016


spike - Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of poetry is its inherent
ambiguity.  It keeps college literature professors employed.

I can tell that you have not read much poetry lately.  'Ambiguous' doesn't
go half far enough.  Try some of the New Yorker's poems, then redefine
ambiguity as obsurantism.  I have a degree in English also and I can't make
heads or tails of them, though other body parts seem more appropriate to
that poetry.

Dickinson, Whitman - these are my kind of folks - oh, and Robert Service's
The Cremation of Sam Mcgee - we just don't get that kind of rhythm anymore,
or even rhyme:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174348  bill w

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:37 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

>
> >... On Behalf Of BillK
> Subject: Re: [ExI] quote of the day - on fame
>
> On 25 March 2016 at 16:34, spike  wrote:
> >
> >>... I aughta make my nickname Ruup.  Then all the frogs would sing my
> name
> > to an admiring bog.
> >
>
> Did you know...... that there are about 5000 species of frogs in the world?
>
> And the 'ribbit ribbit' croak that everybody recognises as the frog noise
> is only made by one species of frog? (Actually 3 similar species from the
> same area)...it is the croak made by the 3 species of frogs in California
> near the film studios where the early films were made...BillK
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
> Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?  BillK gives a good
> example of fiction defining reality.
>
> This meandering thread is a perfect illustration of why I hang out here
> after all these years:  ExI Chat is a busy and fruitful idea factory.
> BillW tosses out a fragment of an obscure poem, we take it away, talking
> about advertisement, frogs, poetry, pretty much anything.  Emily Dickenson
> would have fallen out of her chair laughing at where her work led us.
>
> People here generally don't care who gets credit for the ideas; they just
> toss them into this imaginative information maelstrom and see what comes
> spinning out, spontaneous extropy.  Thanks everyone here.  You are
> delightful company.
>
> spike
>
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