the shortest poem.

[Jochen Stremmel]

Thanks a lot, Mark! Didn't know both of your sources. Close reading is
hilarious. But I'm sure he didn't proofread the book and wheee simply don't
make sense.



2016-06-04 14:54 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> Seems there is a textual dispute over the "shortest poem". Ali interview,
> if he is quoted accurately, differs from Plimpton's memory. Doncha just
> love 'close reading'?
>
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=8ic_8bYywxUC&pg=PA125&dq=%22When+we+were+kings%22++%2B+shortest+poem&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyjvPYtI7NAhWFdj4KHb5pD3QQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22When%20we%20were%20kings%22%20%20%2B%20shortest%20poem&f=false
>
>
> https://books.google.com/books?id=d4PVBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA98&dq='shortest+poem%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ9snqs47NAhVBOD4KHbwJAXEQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q='shortest%20poem%22&f=false
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Some of you will know the story of the shortest poem that Plimpton tells
>> in When We Were Kings. That was the reason I looked up On the Antiquity of
>> Microbes.
>>
>> 2016-06-04 14:20 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> He's in the @OED <https://twitter.com/OED> 21 times, including rumble;
>>> rope-a-dope; braggadocious; to be unable to fight one's way out of a paper
>>> bag. #RIPMuhammadAli
>>> <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RIPMuhammadAli?src=hash>
>>>
>>
>>
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