Hey, Dana sings, meara sings, I think sophia sings. Back off the singers.
And I'm sure SOME Bitch owns a torpedo bra.
Giles: Stop that, you two. Riley: He started it... Xander: He called me a bad name! I think
it was bad; it might have been Latin.
'Selfless'
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Betsy HP - Oct 10, 2003 11:35:16 am PDT #2153 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
sj - Oct 10, 2003 11:35:48 am PDT #2154 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Steph, I love the revised last stanza.
Steph L. - Oct 10, 2003 11:39:45 am PDT #2155 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Steph, I love the revised last stanza.
Thank you!
deborah grabien - Oct 10, 2003 1:05:59 pm PDT #2156 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I sing too. Not in white gloves or a torpedo bra.
I'm afraid I'm firmly with erika on the subject of Eisenhower-era "ladies". This is not why I learned to kickbox, damnit.
erikaj - Oct 10, 2003 1:19:31 pm PDT #2157 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It's not so much the singing as the songs... buffistas and "Que Sera Sera?!" I don't think so....unless it's a drag show, or something.(Cause I was in the choir in high school, myself. Had more hope than talent.Still sing along with Aretha in my sad white girl fashion when I'm alone sometimes. Not dissing singing as a gift, Mary Sue excepted.)
Hil R. - Oct 10, 2003 3:56:04 pm PDT #2158 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I love the revised stanza, Steph.
It becomes a magic spell: I won't deconstruct why it pings me. Because when you take apart a spell, or a mantra, and to try to apply math to it? You risk depleting or eliminating the magic.
Random tangent, but one of my favorite quotes (I'm pretty sure I had it as a tagline for awhile) is Karl Weierstrass: "A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician."
deborah grabien - Oct 10, 2003 9:53:04 pm PDT #2159 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hil, I bet most poet-math types have the sense to worship their two fetishes separately. Either that, or there's a school of magic I must back slowly away from.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 11, 2003 3:01:12 am PDT #2160 of 10001
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I bet most poet-math types have the sense to worship their two fetishes separately.
Would this count as a mix? From the BBC site:
Valerie Laws lives on the North-East coast. She is a graduate of English and Maths and Theoretical Physics, all of which are reflected in her work.
However, note that
She is the editor of an anthology of poems about Star Trek.
Steph, that is a very, very amazing poem.
Hil R. - Oct 11, 2003 5:18:03 am PDT #2161 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That quantum sheep thing looks kind of cool, if weird.
I dunno. There's a certain sort of brain-space-feeling thing that I get when I'm writing something that's finally coming together, or when I'm designing something and get all the pieces to fit together to look how it seems like it should, or when I'm working on a proof and find something that makes it all just click. I don't think there is such a big split between "these are sciency/rational" things and "these are creative/emotional" things. Just different aspects of the same thing, to me.
Betsy HP - Oct 11, 2003 6:46:56 am PDT #2162 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
What Hil Said.
Just treat it as a weird part of our creative process. Some people are inspired by asparagus, others by math. Doesn't necessarily affect the outward form of the poem.