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That's why you should always read the label first.entitled said:
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If she was tumble dried she would look like Little Orphan Annie.entitled said:
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It's a hard knock life...really it is.entitled said:
but...tomorrow is only a day away.
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Shine my head.entitled said:
I'm contolling the urge to pick up McKenna and burp her. Kitchy kitchy koo.
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Only on sundays.entitled said:
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I'm haunted by genius.
I've had a stanza of Swinburne in my head for a week now. It wouldn't be half so bad if it didn't taunt me with his insane genius and positively ridiculous talent. It's like the whole musical meter of it is singing, "And the helpless heart of the horse confesses / Its broken lyre and barren flute." I don't know if I should pray for it to go and leave me in mediocre peace, or stay and torment me with visions.
Oh, stay. Better madness than silence. You're so damned good, Algernon.
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I've had a stanza of Swinburne in my head for a week now. It wouldn't be half so bad if it didn't taunt me with his insane genius and positively ridiculous talent. It's like the whole musical meter of it is singing, "And the helpless heart of the horse confesses / Its broken lyre and barren flute." I don't know if I should pray for it to go and leave me in mediocre peace, or stay and torment me with visions.
Oh, stay. Better madness than silence. You're so damned good, Algernon.
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It fell off.entitled said:
*what are you going to do when you catch her?*
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I have only just found the delights of Swinburne in "Dolores"BlackShanglan said:
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don't feel bad, either did I.entitled said:Aww... i didn't get to play with it. *sulks*
Wouldn't YOU like to know?
Um...No, that's just scares me...Ari is fierce.
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So much for the new pill that's supposed to make me sleep.
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Blackie Malone said:I have only just found the delights of Swinburne in "Dolores"
I've got a stanza from the midst of Atalanta in Calydon. The "Hounds of Spring" section.
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Care to share?BlackShanglan said:
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Too much to choose from, now I'm delirious.entitled said:
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Blackie Malone said:
The section as a whole is about the coming of spring; this is a stanza from the middle of it. The lines beginning with periods are meant to be indented, which I can't seem to do properly with this editor.
The thing with this stanza is ... between the alliteration, the rhyme scheme, the caesuras that come and go precisely as he bids them, the meter that constantly shifts and yet is somehow perfectly right and patterned, the ever-varying patterns of sound repetition, and the stunning control of speed and tension, it would take me half a day just to say what he's doing. How does a man get the vision and proficiency to imagine that and to execute it? I think I've done something clever when I find a meter that isn't a grotesque mis-match to my feeling - one meter, with which I plod carefully and stolidly through my poem. His meter is the most brilliant, exuberant, delightful thing I think I've ever seen. What I wouldn't give to have the talent to do that.
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