the shortest poem.

[Mark Kohut]

And I am not so sure that Ali did not intend the alternate version.

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:26 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it actually does ....in a poetic way.....in Ali's gleeful
> self-embracing way.....seems the two readings have now gone down in
> history. See The Independent, and other places yesterday....and places
> where it is THE preferred text of the poem.
>
> Once again, TRP knew in The Crying of Lot 49 that textual, historical
> uncertainty rules.
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 5, 2016, at 4:23 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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