Comments on: Mythologizing Recovery

By: laurentius-rex

laurentius-rex — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 20:33:24 +0000

I just wrote it for the purpose (as I do)

I can do it in German too even though half the time I have to look in a dictionary to see what I have written

Heres one from yesterday with its translation (my German tends to be a little dyslexic)

Durch schlag und schlacht du will als du hat gemacht.
dein macht erwacht und wurden walden im walden und felden.

Through stroke and slaughter you will do as you have done
Your might will wax and would weild in wood and field

Did Chaucer know poetry? Nah italianate poser, s’fine in Italian not much choice is there.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:46:05 +0000

If I may ask, did you just write this or is this from an already written poem or text?

Thrash pedal to the metal, petulant petals flaking coat of coach paint, quaint aint it?
hammeritic chassis splash notwithstanding

Just noting your se of alliteration and assonance.

By: laurentius-rex

laurentius-rex — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:40:12 +0000

recovery is what happens when a truck picks you up after you have broken down on the side of the highway (well I use “you” advisedly, that is reifying beyond mere anthropomorphisation to weld the person and the car into single entity, (something that can only happen with a land rover) …)

What is better, what is worse, does the arrow of entropy have direction as we rush backward from the end to the beginning running up the down escalator?

O entropa o mores, birmabright crumbles to shite in electrolytic contact riveted in tension, intention otherwise attended tendency to trash.

Thrash pedal to the metal, petulant petals flaking coat of coach paint, quaint aint it?
hammeritic chassis splash notwithstanding

Now there is language, engaged and gages cast geared up in glory for you.