[ExI] quote of the day - on fame

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 22:34:32 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Dan TheBookMan <danust2012 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2016, at 10:37 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> What little I know about Dickinson makes me think she wouldn't have fallen
> off the chair laughing. In fact, one of her early champions, Colonel
> Higginson, found her quite insufferable to be around on their, if memory
> serves, one and only meeting. Of course, what I know about her comes from
> reading her poetry (maybe not the best way to tell anything about a
> person*) and what little biographical information has been provided on this
> shy, reclusive poet.
>
> 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.
>
>
> Well, that makes me feel quite bad for pointing out how Dickinson might
> not have been amused. ;)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>   Sample my Kindle books via:
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>
> * That said, though art can be interpreted many ways, I'm of the mind done
> interpretations are better than others -- even if there's might be no final
> best interpretation. I still think Dickinson didn't mean the French in her
> poem. Yes, given the word 'frog,' one might jump to that association. (It's
> a little surprising given that 'frog' is a derogatory term in that context.
> That should be another clue: I know of no antipathy Dickinson had toward
> the French. Could be wrong about that; I'm not a Dickinson scholar.)
>

​and Spike finds another victim....​


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