NP: Nobody Wants To Read Your Shit

[alice wellintown]

Yes. But the beauty of an open discussion like this one is that, while
a couple-few crew members misinterpret and dismiss, and a few never
tire of telling others how to mean, others comprehend or are at least
entertained or provoked to do something or other or something or other
is evoked that keeps the ball of clews bounding over under and threw
walls collapsing.

London bridge is falling down. Eliot thought enough of this children's
verse to include it in his Wasteland. Pynchon thought enough of it,
Eliot's use of it, Eliot's notes on the poem, to study two books by
the Opie's and include verses from their texts in his GR. The trochaic
feet that dominate children's verse is owed in part to the fact that
kids don't use articles as often as we adults do. But the sound, one
mught dismiss as simple, even primitive is also more emphatic because
it is accnetual and not metrical. Like Beowulf. Like Coleridge's drug
inspired Christabel or the poetry of the great G.M. Hopkins--spung
rhythm. Note how he means not just what he means. Pied has many
meanings; over 15 are listed in my OED.

 Pied Beauty

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;         5
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:         10
                  Praise him.



On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Or it could just be interpreted as logorrhea and dismissed as noise.
>
> On Nov 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> The assumption that one always writes to be read retards development.
>> The rhetorical method: topic purpose, audience, form, or Subject,
>> Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker (SOAPS), can provide much needed
>> structure and organization to writers in the early stages of
>> development, but the conversational method has as much merit as the
>> traditional and conventional paragraphing method. Blog away and  aim
>> away and text away and scribble away and keep notes in the margin and
>> doodle  . . . and pun and play and tom fool errrr,  for it is often
>> when we errr that we discover. That a reader must be subjected to our
>> errrs is another matter, but to argue that the egg on Alice's face is
>> Humpty's yoke is to stretch a weighty metaphor tautologically across
>> the broad shoulders of weak oxens and plow the boundaries of
>> blunderland.
>
>