the shortest poem.

[Mark Kohut]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2016/06/04/for_muhammad_ali_dead_at_74_speaking_and_boxing_were_a_one_two_punch.html

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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