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posted by
richinstore
on October 28, 2007 at 5:37 AM
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Interesting experimentation - and a useful explanation too!
posted by
Antonionioni
on October 28, 2007 at 4:11 AM
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Re: Chrisja,
yes zena, i was being a bit playful - 'a about f' is arse about face and 'b to f' is back to front so the idea of dealing with cups before saucers is a reversal because the expression 'cups and saucers' places cups first - poetic licence and freedom to artistically restructure word sequences is poetry's domain - i got carried away by the idea that cups and saucers are both containers - a saucer is a shallow version of a cup, but is made to hold the cup, so it is a shallow space that supports a deeper space, and that felt like quite a good analogy for poetry, that through its tight economy of words it can contain a lot of depth - the circus propietor is a metaphor for a poet, and the act of urinating (golden arcs) suggests that art and poetry comes equally from reverent and irreverent places - it can make the mundane interesting and magical - the creative urge is also a form of release and can be a way of calming restless or troubled states - wooo, i've turned all this into a thesis - in the end it was just a bit of word play that came out that sparked my curiosity
posted by
chrisja
on October 28, 2007 at 2:38 AM
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Thought inducing !
posted by
afzal50
on October 27, 2007 at 10:57 PM
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Chrisja,
I'm never able to follow the a-b, c-d methods, so you kind of lost me there, but I like the imagery of the first one, and strobic is a neat word.
The second one made me go "hmm" and think about it. I don't get it, but it's unique.
posted by
Zena77
on October 27, 2007 at 4:56 PM
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