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    I’m not sure why you posted this but I think you have missed the important bit that Wordsworth wrote before the part you quote:

    “For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful...
  2. What a fantastic slip! Please note mods that I...

    What a fantastic slip! Please note mods that I am not making fun of the spelling but merely expressing my enjoyment of one of the best typos I’ve read for a long time. If it was deliberate,...
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    Is there an echo in here? :D

    Is there an echo in here? :D
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    I disagree in the case of the bat’s ear. Even though I understand what happens and how it happens, I still find it staggering. It would certainly go on my list of Seven Wonders. There’s a thread...
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    Sticky: RIP Bandini

    Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
    Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience
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    Sticky: "I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little....

    "I'm smart; you're dumb. I'm big; you're little. I'm right; you're wrong. And there's nothing you can do about it."

    Harry Wormwood from Roald Dahl’s Matilda
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    I wouldn’t want to argue with such an impressive list of ‘ologies’ but I agree with PeterL. I don’t really understand what you mean by ‘nearly synonymous’ in this context, anyway. Nor can I see the...
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    That’s a small price to pay for global harmony.


    If true, this comes as quite a shock to me. I thought the point of all these writers was to help us celebrate and bask in the ineffable...
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    Sticky: Cheers, B.

    “And this is the evil that heresy inflicts on the Christian people, obfuscating ideas and inciting all to become inquisitors to their personal benefit. For what I saw at the abbey then caused me to...
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    That bit did it.

    There isn’t a commentator on this poem that hasn’t highlighted its sexual connotations. I have often read student essays about the worm’ s ‘rape’ of the rose. How about seeing...
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    I am not bothered in the slightest that Donne is...

    I am not bothered in the slightest that Donne is ‘sexist’. I have enjoyed his poetry for over twenty years and am no more in favour of banning his work than Shanna is. I hate the attempt by...
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    I can hear thunder rumbling in the distance.....

    I can hear thunder rumbling in the distance.....
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    ……….............. sympathetic towards Bandini.

    Am I allowed to feel that? Oh dear, I do so wish I was bland and unquestioning. Life would be so much easier.
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    Sorry, mono – I don’t understand your point – but then perhaps you didn’t understand mine. Are you saying that balance is not a sense? I know the things you mention but I don’t know that it’s as...
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    It’s almost certainly Ted Hughes but I don’t know which one.

    "Deign on the passing World to turne thine Eyes,
    And pause awhile from Learning to be wise;
    There mark what Ills the Scholar's Life...
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    Jackyyyy, if we have only five senses, can you...

    Jackyyyy, if we have only five senses, can you please explain to me what my sense of balance is? And how about my sense of heat, sense of pain and my sense of where my body is?

    “More easily...
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    Jay, could you explain the poem for me? Could...

    Jay, could you explain the poem for me? Could you possibly give me a rough paraphrase of that last line? Isn’t “kisses are a far better fate / than wisdom” the philosophy of a bimbo, of one who...
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    Another comment on my person, eh Virgil?

    “Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
    And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
    Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
    Just hint a...
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    Sticky: I appear to have transgressed the boundaries of...

    I appear to have transgressed the boundaries of correct categorisation elsewhere so I’ll have to post this one here instead:

    “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds”

    Ralph Waldo...
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    Vivian Mercier wasn’t criticising Beckett – it was meant as a compliment.

    As for the rest, isn’t this what we are doing here on the Forum? -

    “We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the...
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    Sticky: If only. This by Houseman is closer to my way of...

    If only. This by Houseman is closer to my way of seeing things:

    “Frailty of understanding is in itself no proper target for scorn and mockery. But the unintelligent forfeit their claim to...
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    Sticky: A few from HL Mencken: The capacity of human...

    A few from HL Mencken:

    The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent...
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    Does anyone agree with Vivian Mercier’s comment that Waiting for Godot is a play in which “nothing happens, twice”?

    A question I’d be more interested to read responses to is ‘does anyone think...
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    Apparently, scientists somewhere have discovered...

    Apparently, scientists somewhere have discovered that horses and cows are different, as well. :rolleyes:

    PS My comment above was really not meant to be an accurate appraisal. Also, at that...
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    :lol: Sorry, I don’t like Browning, although My Last Duchess is worth reading and interesting from this perspective.



    How seriously are we supposed to take Outraged of Camden? ;)


    I’m...
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