[Phys-L] Re: Eureka!

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

At 09:42 AM 12/6/2005, John C., you wrote:

> Beyond the mix up in authors,
>
> the Indian Serenade has the sappiest line
> O lift me from the grass!
>    I die! I faint! I fail!
>
> So first he dies, then faints, or just merely fails.  This is
> completely weak.  He had to be under the influence to write this.  It
> actually sounds like a dream written by a very droopy lover.
>
>   By contrast Kublai Khan is very literate with great images and one
> really doubts that it could have been written under the influence.
>
> In either case accounts of dreams as inspiration are to be taken with
> a grain of salt.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX

Here's an opening from a poem written by someone I know well:

I see the shining honesty,
      the longing to be let alone,
         or set free:
the hunger for a touch;
       not just any touch,
          the voice; not just any voice,
the presence, the longing for the presence,
      the voice of course.
It's been too long: I know.
And the old familiar weakness of the marrow,
       the bones of shivering jello.
[...]

Wonder what John C could possibly make of "Bones of shivering Jello" ?

Weak?  Droopy? Undoubtedly!  :-)


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!
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