07-14-2014, 12:58 PM
Thanks again for your replies, tectak.
But when you read "turn a tool, a page", did you read that as "turn a screwdriver or similar device, a page"???
When I wrote that I truly did mean "tool" to be fool; and turn to dually mean "persuade to join the other side" and to advance in time as one does when reading a book turning its pages.
Eg.
Turn a tool, a page.
The war machine convinces fools that war is a good idea, another chapter of history is written
I am absolutely shocked that one could read that any other way. But they have.
There are many faults with the poem, but I just don't get this one.
I would also use the words silly and pedantic interchangeably, given this situation. Perhaps I should crack open the dictionary.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/writing/gramm...euphemisms
As it turns out, tool is not a euphemism.
But when you read "turn a tool, a page", did you read that as "turn a screwdriver or similar device, a page"???
When I wrote that I truly did mean "tool" to be fool; and turn to dually mean "persuade to join the other side" and to advance in time as one does when reading a book turning its pages.
Eg.
Turn a tool, a page.
The war machine convinces fools that war is a good idea, another chapter of history is written
I am absolutely shocked that one could read that any other way. But they have.
There are many faults with the poem, but I just don't get this one.
I would also use the words silly and pedantic interchangeably, given this situation. Perhaps I should crack open the dictionary.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/writing/gramm...euphemisms
As it turns out, tool is not a euphemism.