Polter, that reminds me a little of 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Very nice.
Thanks. I don't know that one. Who's it by?
Angel: I can stay in town as long as you want me. Buffy: How's forever? Does forever work for you?
'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2004 7:05:44 am PDT #4016 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
deborah grabien - Apr 18, 2004 7:07:29 am PDT #4017 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I love haiku, and can write them, but the ones I write never feel solid to me. My brain seems to want to treat writing them the way it treats writing limericks.
edited because my typing and tenses are all screwy right now.
Liese S. - Apr 18, 2004 7:20:21 am PDT #4018 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Liese, you should know I reacted to the words only, since I didn't know you were you at the time. How's that for impartial?
Heh. How it all comes round.
Deena - Apr 18, 2004 8:25:46 am PDT #4019 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is by Wallace Stevens, mild-mannered insurance salesman by day, poet by night.
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2004 9:34:15 am PDT #4020 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Hm. Interesting. I don't really see the connection, but being compared to Wallace Stevens isn't ungood.
Oh! There was that time the blackbirds got baked into a pie, and you can drink wine with pie. Or something.
deborah grabien - Apr 18, 2004 9:41:58 am PDT #4021 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Wondering if the connection isn't the linear nature of the thing point (or vignette) A, on to B, etc.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2004 9:56:22 am PDT #4022 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I really liked those, Poltercow, much better than, you know, looking at cherry blossoms and like that.
Deena - Apr 18, 2004 11:19:21 am PDT #4023 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
I'm not sure what the connection is. I should have said, perhaps, that it engendered a similar feeling in me.
victor infante - Apr 18, 2004 12:21:23 pm PDT #4024 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Bopping in to share this thought:
Outlines are wonderful things, but once you stray from them, you are doomed.
I had written myself away from the outline on the novel, Nihilist Chic. That was OK, I thought, because I liked where it was going. So I followed the thread for awhile, and thought that, eventually, I would be able to bring it back pretty much to where I originally started.
I was terribly, terribly wrong.
The story has now come back to the place I originally plotted it to be, but is now about to go somewhere completely different. Again.
Damn thing has a mind of its own.
Polter-Cow - Apr 18, 2004 12:50:27 pm PDT #4025 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Damn thing has a mind of its own.
Yeah, they never behave themselves, do they? I've always had to fight the urge to rein the story in rather than let it take its course, because almost always, the best stuff turns out to be the stuff I hadn't planned out, the stuff that appeared out of nowhere.