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11-15-2006, 01:03 PM | #1 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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An experiment.
Take a book you love and, closing your eyes, flip the pages and place your finger somewhere on the page.....take a word or a phrase from that line. Repeat until you have a poem
Here's mine. Taken from Revelation by Carol Berg: Judgement Judgement. No, you’re wise, Said Merryt. Jumble, every once a while. As we drank chamomile. When we were called, Back inside. For sanctuary, as he claims, Nothing was that easy. Any message, asking for Forgiveness. Nothing of Fiona, spat, Is it not wonderful? Who carried this kind of, Demon? He handed me another As I dragged myself towards. I’d come to think you felt no, Distractions, Still too far. Who could value, The shape of the penetrating wind? |
11-15-2006, 01:08 PM | #2 |
I can hear my ears
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why?
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11-15-2006, 01:10 PM | #3 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Hahaha. Good question. For fun. To see if what comes out scans in anyway.
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11-15-2006, 02:11 PM | #4 |
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From The Bridge by Iain Banks
A(bridge)D "Just you shut the fuk up" But the rok comes rollin She is sitting sideways on a seat The Field Marshall's quarters; an old study Climb the highest dune See this fox hole? Study drawing and painting For longer than I care to think about Holding a black hat in one hand He bought a Toyota MR2 Scattering people to either side Not a boat, the rocking's damped "Aw wait a fukin minnit!" I am lying on the ground an it sits on ma showdder Exploded through the great pipes "I would like to see Dr Joyce" Some complicated mechanism He did tell Andrea Sticking my head through the broken pane Perhaps not an ideal choice of book, as there are sections written in dialect as well as fantasy/ dream sequences. But it was that or random phrases from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Guidance on Child Protection, which I am ostensibly working on tonight! I didn't add any grammar - it stands or falls exactly as written in the book.
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11-15-2006, 02:16 PM | #5 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Awesome! I thought that worked better than the one I did actually. And I think it's a great choice of book. Mind you, The Bridge is one of my all time favourite books:P
What's also interesting is: I did that whilst I was ostensibly working on an essay about medieval heresy......and the only other person to have a bash so far is someone who is ostensibly working on the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's Guidance on Child Protection....hmmm. Maybe I should have entitled this thread 'An experiment to try whilst you are ostensibly working on something else'....:P |
11-15-2006, 02:18 PM | #6 |
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AKA - Something for people with books to hand and fried brain cells
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11-15-2006, 02:22 PM | #7 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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*grins* yes.....that'll do nicely
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11-15-2006, 04:18 PM | #8 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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He would rather sing another time
So don't make yourself uneasy And so you're glad to leave me Pilot would have been Half wild with delight when she saw me pushed unceremoniously to one side It was half dream, half reality Is the nurse here? From Jane Eyre. This worked out great...sorry it's so short, but I thought it was perfect with the last line!
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11-15-2006, 04:28 PM | #9 |
We have to go back, Kate!
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Fabulous! that really works.
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11-17-2006, 08:40 AM | #10 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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DanaC...wish more people would try this. I think it's great. I just re-read mine and I think I will print it...just works so great.
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11-17-2006, 10:03 AM | #11 |
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It really is amazing the stuff that occurs to you when you are 800 words into a 2500 word essay:P
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11-17-2006, 12:27 PM | #12 |
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From The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, by Adam West
Pleasure Heads West Monkey's just one of the gods You may be surprised Ladies are supposed to be virgins But I am not disheartened Septimus Millward stood erect The man he had trusted since he arrived She was only aware of her own body "I'm a Judas," he whispered A criminal? A gun-runner? "Does it shock you?" he asked So pale and rapt in concentration Flags and a beard and a painted face.
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11-17-2006, 03:26 PM | #13 |
To shreds, you say?
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(see drawing at left)
the stone would be seen much more closely because mortar is in the head joints as with other types of plank siding because a primary mark indicates a door or window we mark the cut with the siding held in place Once I've determined my layout if your siding continues beyond your roof's eave yeah yeah
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11-17-2006, 03:29 PM | #14 |
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Not doin' it... it will stick and ruin my book for me.
Sounds like a cool idea for people that can shake it. Can't read some of my favorite poems now because of the whole "Yellow Rose of Tex" thing. |
11-20-2006, 08:52 AM | #15 | |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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