Vth Element Poems

dennis grace amazing at mail.utexas.edu
Mon May 19 14:39:21 CDT 1997


Richard Romeo posted:

>A woman from the future or the past, 
>come to save or destroyhumanity, 
>in concert with the four earthly elements, 
>the prize of both the dim-witted and the priestly, 
>a woman who can read the history of centuries in minutes, 
>but is stuck on V. 
>before she meets her destiny.
>-------------------------
> a certain prayer
>for Slothropian despair 
>the late Fox Mulder.

Shouldn't line four read:

"the prize of both the profane and the priestly"?

BTW, anyone considered Luc Besson to direct GR?  Gary Oldman as Blicero?

Dennis Grace
University of Texas at Austin
English Department
Assistant Instructor
Recovering Medievalist

"And first, with relation to the mind or understanding, 'tis manifest what
mighty advantages fiction has over truth."  --Jonathan Swift's Grub-Street
Hack, _A Tale of a Tub_




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