Gotta at least bang the bag of rubber hammers - with the Scottish accent, it is a biological imperative.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
WindSparrow - Dec 05, 2005 4:10:37 am PST #6715 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Gris - Dec 05, 2005 5:43:58 am PST #6716 of 10001
Hey. New board.
I've never been a big Blake fan, for some reason. I probably haven't given him enough of a chance. I've never been huge on poetry.
Polter-Cow - Dec 05, 2005 8:39:49 am PST #6717 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I kind of love you guys.
Kat - Dec 05, 2005 5:05:03 pm PST #6718 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I too have to admit that I love Blake. He's totally a Marry. His writing may have been dense and possibly indicating bat-shit-craziness, but his illustrations, particularly the illuminated prints, indicate he was visionary in the truest sense.
Also, his take on divinity, that the true Divinity would never be punitive and malicious (so unlike Dante), is the most sensical of all of them.
And, finally, he's also a Marry because when his wife couldn't conceive and the other Swedenborgians suggested they get a surrogate or concubine as would be acceptable in Swedenborgian rules, he didn't because his wife didn't want him to.
And, he taught her to read and become an illustrator too.
Blake's a keeper.
to me, Dante is always a chucker.
DavidS - Dec 05, 2005 8:55:35 pm PST #6719 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For the record, Blake was happily married and had lots of lusty sex with his wife.
eta: oops, Kat already updated that record with Blake's M-ness.
Kat - Dec 05, 2005 8:58:06 pm PST #6720 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
And, with that list, there are plenty of problems (Dante was a bitter exile, Milton's blindness) that might be deciding factors.
Nilly - Dec 05, 2005 10:19:34 pm PST #6721 of 10001
Swouncing
I feel so ignorant, even from just skimming in this thread.
[Edit: both in popular culture and in the more traditional classic one. The most I can get to is guess which name belongs to which period. I hope.]
JZ - Dec 06, 2005 3:48:24 am PST #6722 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Blake and Dante are both keepers for me. But then, I am a Purgatorio and Paradisio-preferring freak, so what do I know.
F/C/M Blake, Dante, Donne--that'd be almost undoable for me; on balance with both Blake and Donne, I could barely, just barely, chuck Dante, but deciding between the other two would be agony. And replace Dante with either of the Brownings, and I'd be completely immobilized.
Sigh. Wild-living crazy young poet, all about the God and the sex and the ecstatic intertwining of all the pleasures. He's like the proto-Prince.
I feel so ignorant, even from just skimming in this thread.
Oh, hush, you, higher-math-loving Physics Girl.
amych - Dec 06, 2005 3:59:22 am PST #6723 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'd have to go F Donne and M Blake in JZ incredibly painfully difficult scenario -- if only because of Blake's yummy sex-ay marital history above, and the fact that Donne's crazy ecstatic thing peaked early. I'd be all "honey, whatever happened to the astoundingly dirty sonnets? all your astoundingly dirty sonnets are about God, anymore" and that's just no good for a marriage. Still, it wasn't an easy choice.
§ ita § - Dec 06, 2005 4:00:12 am PST #6724 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"honey, whatever happened to the astoundingly dirty sonnets? all your astoundingly dirty sonnets are about God, anymore"
So he's like Prince? Finally, something in this conversation to which I can draw a parallel.