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   Message 44,460 of 45,517   
   Cujo DeSockpuppet to NancyGene   
   Re: Apple Montage / Will Dockery (c & c    
   11 Jan 26 16:35:36   
   
   From: cujo@petitmorte.net   
      
   nancygene.andjayme@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (NancyGene) wrote in   
   news:TlOdnXJ7BPGJTf70nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com:   
      
   > [quote="NancyGene"][quote="NancyGene"][quote="HarryLime"]   
   >> HarryLime wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>> mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
   >>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> In your previous comments, you said that the poem was meant to be   
   >>>>> a nostalgic look at some of your childhood memories.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> DONKEY: Which it obviously is, written as a montage in poetry form.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> MMP: It just occurred to me that you might be conflating (or   
   >>>> confusing) "montage" with "homage."   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It would be correct to say that your poem was written as an homage   
   >>>> to your childhood memories.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Will Donkey could also be writing "fromage."   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> We think that what Will Donkey wrote was more of an inept panorama   
   >> than a montage.  However, apple trees were not discovered in Georgia   
   >> until 1997, so what Will Donkey was writing about was probably   
   >> dogwood.  Mildred was strangely attracted to those trees.   
   >   
   > We correct ourselves--the poem takes place in the "backwoods" of   
   > Tennessee, instead of Georgia.  However, there are no apple trees in   
   > Tennessee, only mountain tops, coonskin caps, and bears.  Mildred was   
   > also attracted to bears.   
      
   TN has it's share of inbred shitkickers so there is a link to Columbus.   
      
   --   
   "The fact that it doesn't apply to the poem is of little consequence to   
   you, because your poems don't have a literary basis, because you're   
   functionally illiterate and haven't got a clue as to what a poem is." -   
   Little Willie Douchebag gets another asskicking from Pendragon   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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