tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post7009152805755267744..comments2023-09-10T07:45:26.755-04:00Comments on The Neighbors Will Hear: To His Craigslist Bottoms*TEDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-79157289020090583532008-10-31T03:32:00.000-04:002008-10-31T03:32:00.000-04:00@TED: thank you for improving my culture! It is de...@TED: thank you for improving my culture! It is definetely why I like to read you so much...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-13231471536989111432008-10-30T21:38:00.000-04:002008-10-30T21:38:00.000-04:00Kudos to both you and Andrew Marvell. Plus you ge...Kudos to both you and Andrew Marvell. Plus you get a special award for using "Buttboys" in a blogged poem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-38550145146466176742008-10-30T17:41:00.000-04:002008-10-30T17:41:00.000-04:00I would so come over if I read that and was lookin...I would so come over if I read that and was looking. That last pic made stirrings. Ouch. Thanks for your nice comment today. I appreciated it.tornwordohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16581361982939423598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-23308392969062073192008-10-30T11:07:00.000-04:002008-10-30T11:07:00.000-04:00Anon, I hate to be pedantic (and boy, howdy, is th...Anon, I hate to be pedantic (and boy, howdy, is that a lie), but Marvell's first two lines are exactly the same as mine, except that I have substituted "buttboys" for "lady."<BR/><BR/>Perdoneme, thank you. I am between tax deadlines, but I still likely would not have been able to write that piece had I not been stuck in the most boring session of continuing professional education imaginable yesterday morning. I did my best to pay attention for the first hour or so, but during the break, I read the original poem then spent the last hour of the session sitting in the back scribbling couplets and lists of words that rhyme with tongue, etc. Then during lunch, I typed them all in, got rid of the worst ones, re-ordered the others, and made a couple of additions to try to work back in a bit more of the original Marvell. <BR/><BR/>All of that really didn't take all that long (as meters go, iambic tetrameter is one of the easiest in which to spit out couplets, I think), but once I published the entry, I probably edited and republished at least ten more times, for various fixes. I almost never have to do that for my normal entries. I don't know how anyone ever manages to write original poetry.TEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-17683285362507030772008-10-30T10:18:00.000-04:002008-10-30T10:18:00.000-04:00This was cleverly impressive -- and funny. Are you...This was cleverly impressive -- and funny. Are you between tax deadlines?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-80574524336116868912008-10-30T09:35:00.000-04:002008-10-30T09:35:00.000-04:00"Were there but world enough and time,This hesitat..."Were there but world enough and time,<BR/>This hesitation, ladt were no crime"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-6375656889313099842008-10-30T08:32:00.000-04:002008-10-30T08:32:00.000-04:00Jérôme, the poem I ripped off is Andrew Marvell's ...Jérôme, the poem I ripped off is Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." It contains one of the most famous couplets in English literature:<BR/><BR/>But at my back I always hear<BR/>Time's winged chariot hurrying near.<BR/><BR/>The phrase "time's winged chariot" has become so common that I'm sure people use it without knowing its source. I would guess that the reference was obvious to most of my native English speaking readers, but I don't really know. I get a fair number of hits from the U.K., and it's hard for me to imagine any of those readers not knowing the poem since Marvell was English.TEDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07765245186357910074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2080750207800492571.post-17870463014407595512008-10-30T03:51:00.000-04:002008-10-30T03:51:00.000-04:00So can you please explain the reference to your ad...So can you please explain the reference to your adored - and adoring - non-american readers? <BR/>Is there any music wich can be played upon your "canonical" poetry?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com