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Vitruvius, you convoluted man,
brain like a polluted avian,
turned poor Leo into a deluded vitruvian.
Never realizing that the tetrahedron is the key,
not that stretched out line of naked humanity.
Might as well mistake a mermaid for a manatee,
although both are as out of reach
as a pentagram door on
Stephen Kings beach.
One hand…more or less!
©-Erthona
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i'm actually using the artwork on a book i can't write. 
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Why not use it on a book you can write? I have not noticed a high correlation between the cover art and what is actually the theme of the book! Good artwork and a catchy title overcome any number of literary defects. Besides if you simply say it with authority, regardless of proof, people will generally believe you.
For a brief moment the other day I seriously considered doing a series of critiques on Shakespeare's plays that I consider as farces as opposed to comedies. Fortunately sanity returned rather quickly as I contemplated digging out all of Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism and re-reading it as a prelude to such an effort!
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because i can't write. or at least i can't get back into the thing i started,...i forgot what i wrote and no matter how many times i read it i need to read it again  the book's call "the misconception" which it obviously was.
i'd love to see someone do serious crit on all the nursery rhymes 
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Actually the psychological nuances as well as the historical context could be quite enlightening. I have often pondered the psychological implications of "ring around the rosy" as it is a description of death from the black plague. The sores were called rosies, one carried flowers to cover the stench of the disease, and of course "we all fall down" meant they died. There are actually few classic nursery rhymes that are completely benign. I think psychologically they fall along the same axis as that of team sports being reflections of and preparations for war, especially those primarily played by males originally. It could be fun, but it would be very research intensive.
"because i can't write. or at least i can't get back into the thing i started"
That's probably due to you originally using an unauthentic (stylistic) voice you picked up somewhere and cannot now recreate (although it could also just be a matter of lost inspiration). If you could determine where it came from, you could probably go back and read it and get started again. That happened to me once where I had gotten into a Douglas Adams mode. I decided it wasn't worth it to me to do the work to get re-started. In poetry my voice has been authentic for a long time, but prose is still a bit iffy, unless I am speaking in first person personal of myself, and who wants to listen to that?
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lost inspiration i think. i started out full of enthusiasm and lost my finest chapter to the void of the internet.i couldn't get over the heartbreak
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Ah! such is love!
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i think i keep putting it off because i know this way i'm not a fully fledged failure 
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Yes, I'm fully aware of that rationale. Better to be a dubious failure through lack of effort, than through effort remove all doubt, for in a twisted way (if only in our own minds), we keep hope alive! Those are sentiments I can very easily bed down with and take a long, and uneventful nap.
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(05-03-2012, 03:36 PM)Erthona Wrote: Vitruvius, you convoluted man,
brain like a polluted avian,
turned poor Leo into a deluded vitruvian.
Never realizing that the tetrahedron is the key,
not that stretched out line of naked humanity.
Might as well mistake a mermaid for a manatee,
although both are as out of reach,
as a pentagram door on
Stephen Kings beach.
One hand…more or less!
©-Erthona Sometimes I wonder what rattles your cage!
We live near to Hexham. The Romans liked the place so much they stayed there long enough to build a couple of forts ( Housteads) then the cold got to their bare knees and they left. Vitruvius is credited with his engineering skills and gets an Hon. Mensh at our local fort. Not one to limit himself to fort building (if he did at all....not much info for sure) he did a job on Leo and in the face of total contemporaneous apathy gave future artists some crap stiff enough to hang a canvas on with the much replicated Vitruvian Man. I can get the same result with the shape of a Cadbury's Cream Egg shape...so what?
Anyway, along comes this bloke, erthona was his name (allegedly) who takes umbrage with Vitruvius and gets off on one in a neat little ten-liner some time later; well, about 2000 years later...I mean, why Vitruvius....why now??? Apostrophe in S. King's beach. God, how could you?:
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Thanks for the catch. How could I? I've no idea. It is not one of my regular sort of mistakes.
"I mean, why Vitruvius....why now???" Why not?
Somehow (you must know I have no idea, it was the intersection, or car wreck of a number of thoughts coming together at the time of writing, which made perfect sense then, but now I just like reading it for the pretty colors it makes on the ground when the sun shines through it), working backwards from the "gunslinger" series (which I never finished) I ended up with Vitruvius. This takes Zen and combines it with the oddities of the flag manifold to chart pop culture over two millennia (or is it millennium?) using a fictitious gun fighter's lost hand as the fulcrum to balance the whole thing across space-time and a as yet non-existent unified field theory. Basically a non-Euclidean description of the god particle (which I am still waiting for the LHC to find to justify the huge investment in what is the equivalent of a physic's circle jerk). But you know, it's that whole golden number/circle, Plank limit, natural repetition, proportion thingy (I love using thingy, it sounds so scientifical). Like how are bees able to convey, altitude, distance, and direction, in a dance that looks strangely as if based on five dimensional space with only five hundred brain cells to work with?
"along comes this bloke, erthona was his name (allegedly)" That's Sir Tharmas Erthona (and the Sir is just as real as the rest of the name!) to you, you breath minted fungus muncher!
Glad to see your back,
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(05-10-2012, 01:46 AM)Erthona Wrote: Thanks for the catch. How could I? I've no idea. It is not one of my regular sort of mistakes.
"I mean, why Vitruvius....why now???" Why not?
Somehow (you must know I have no idea, it was the intersection, or car wreck of a number of thoughts coming together at the time of writing, which made perfect sense then, but now I just like reading it for the pretty colors it makes on the ground when the sun shines through it), working backwards from the "gunslinger" series (which I never finished) I ended up with Vitruvius. This takes Zen and combines it with the oddities of the flag manifold to chart pop culture over two millennia (or is it millennium?) using a fictitious gun fighter's lost hand as the fulcrum to balance the whole thing across space-time and a as yet non-existent unified field theory. Basically a non-Euclidean description of the god particle (which I am still waiting for the LHC to find to justify the huge investment in what is the equivalent of a physic's circle jerk). But you know, it's that whole golden number/circle, Plank limit, natural repetition, proportion thingy (I love using thingy, it sounds so scientifical). Like how are bees able to convey, altitude, distance, and direction, in a dance that looks strangely as if based on five dimensional space with only five hundred brain cells to work with?
"along comes this bloke, erthona was his name (allegedly)" That's Sir Tharmas Erthona (and the Sir is just as real as the rest of the name!) to you, you breath minted fungus muncher!
Glad to see your back,
Dale And I'll be glad to see you're back one day.
Reargaurds,
Tectak
PS A spirited defence of the (almost) indefensible which I enjoyed more than the poem!
So that's alright, then.
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My dear Tectak,
Only for your entertainment would I go to such trouble, knowing only you can recognize the pure truth that is embodied in total nonsense, as it must be, for we know that pure truth unadorned will blind one for life
Although I have nothing against a little tail, I'll never be back, only front as any good hollow man knows. It has often been noted that one should not take note of the strange man behind the curtain as he betrays the hollowness of a man who is all shell in front and elsewhere all rear! As any good front man should be, and as Nick Bottom, the weaver learned to his surprise and betterment, if not necessarily to his enjoyment.
Yours,
Robyn G. Fellow
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(05-10-2012, 10:54 AM)Erthona Wrote: My dear Tectak,
Only for your entertainment would I go to such trouble, knowing only you can recognize the pure truth that is embodied in total nonsense, as it must be, for we know that pure truth unadorned will blind one for life
Although I have nothing against a little tail, I'll never be back, only front as any good hollow man knows. It has often been noted that one should not take note of the strange man behind the curtain as he betrays the hollowness of a man who is all shell in front and elsewhere all rear! As any good front man should be, and as Nick Bottom, the weaver learned to his surprise and betterment, if not necessarily to his enjoyment.
Yours,
Robyn G. Fellow
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Oh! you and your FAQ's
besides, I prefer PIE!
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