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   Message 45,483 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: One of Herrick's epigrams for your p   
   24 Feb 26 04:01:38   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
      
   > > Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> HarryLime wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> Will-Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> George J. Dance wrote:   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>> HarryLime wrote:   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:   
   > >>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>> Karla wrote:   
   > >>>>>>>>>> In this little urn is laid   
   > >>>>>>>>>> Prudence Baldwin, once my maid,   
   > >>>>>>>>>> From whose happy spark here let   
   > >>>>>>>>>> Spring the purple violet.   
   > >>>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>> Robert Herrick   
   > >>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>> Nice little tribute, makes me think of one of my favorite Beatles   
   songs, "Dear Prudence."   
   > >>>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>> Poor Mr. Herrick is turning in his grave over that remark.   
   > >>>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>> Have you ever come across a poem that *didn't* remind you of a   
   1960s rock song?   
   > >>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>> I'm not too far off from this guy, Frank Hudson, who envisioned   
   Robert Herrick in a blues mode:   
   > >>>>>>> https://frankhudson.org/2020/04/30/corinna-corinna-lets-go-a-maying/   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Harry Lime: Two dumbasses only double the dumbassery.   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Dockery: Or, as us often the case, you just don't "get it."   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Here's the opening line of the article by Frank Hudson:   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> "Robert Herrick wrote in the awkward 17th and 18th century era in   
   English poetry where if you aren’t Milton you get tabbed in the minor poet   
   folder."   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Here's the opening line of Wikipedia's bio on him:   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> "Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 " buried 15 October 1674)   
   was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric."   
   > >>>>>>   
   > >>>>>> Hmm... what's wrong with this picture?   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> I don't see anything wrong with either.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Can you enlighten me?   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> There's nothing wrong with either of them, Will.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Frank Hudson said that "Robert Herrick wrote in the awkward 17th and   
   18th century era in English poetry ..."   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> Wikipedia agrees with that, by noting that Herrick wrote in the 17th   
   century.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> HarryLiar is just trying to pretend those two statements contradict, in   
   > >>>> order to call Frank Hudson a "dumbass". Typical HarryLiar nonsense.   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>> Thanks for clarifying that, GJD.   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >> The only thing George clarified is how limited his understanding of the   
   English language is.   
   > >>   
   > >> Of course, anyone who's read his "edits" of poems by you and the late,   
   unlamented [Zod]   
   > >   
   > >   
   > > Zod isn't dead, in fact he's alive and well.   
   > >   
   > > We spoke on the telephone a few days ago.   
   > >   
   > > Like Jim Senetto, Zod simply doesn't post on Usenet newsgroups at this   
   time.   
   > >   
   > > And so it goes.   
   >   
   > General Zod is a comic book super villain who has no existence in the real   
   world.   
      
   Says Harry Lime, a fictional character in an Orson Welles movie.   
      
      
   Zod is the moniker of a former regular of this newsgoup.   
      
   > xxxxxxxxxx xxxxx is drug-addicted, alcoholic pissbum who, may or may not be   
   dead.  Either way, no one gives shit.   
      
   Yet you can't seem to get Zod out of your thoughts.   
      
   😏   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=658534096#658534096   
      
      
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