3:20 p.m. 2001-04-06
I fell asleep after reading Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet sequence this afternoon, and dreamed in iambic pentamater for about forty-five minutes straight. It was all nonsense, but it was all iambic pentameter too.
And straight the sun was rising to the brink / The thousand horsemen rode on miles untold / And yet my love bring back the rapid song / Let others think what they do know is bold.
Good First Lines for As Yet Unwritten Pieces
"Six foot tall rodents are bad news."
"On Thursday, January 23rd, Martin attended school without socks."
"Desdemona Rogers was:
an Amazon
a sea captain
a minor goddess
an elephant
invisible
orange
a vampire
a cyborg
interested in luge."
"My father listens to march music."
"No one knew how long Henry Fearsome had lived on a traffic island."
"This is Horatio: . This is not Horatio: ."
"A person shouldn't play field hockey in clown shoes."
"William lived in the City of William, situated scenically on the beautiful Port of William in front of the William mountains that marked the Eastern border of Williamsland. William was the king."
"The sun came out from behind the clouds just at sunset on the day that Leroy found an alien at the laundromat."
"The Sultan of Tapshun collected bridges."
"Morris, unfortunately, sounded rather like a cricket."
"'Wickerton, I believe you know your cousin JoJo?'"
"Ask not for whom the car stops -- it stops for thee."
"Admiration Arabella Finiola Jones hated poetry. And ham sandwiches. Which were not unrelated."
"There was one, and only one, movie theater in Norgeville, and it had shown nothing but 'Attack of the Moderately Large Groundhog IV' for as long as anyone could remember."
"The Unfortunate Case of Rolfie Peterson or The Coke Machine But Sleeps. A parable for the modern age."
Also: Giant squid.
I fell asleep after reading Lady Mary Wroth's sonnet sequence this afternoon, and dreamed in iambic pentamater for about forty-five minutes straight. It was all nonsense, but it was all iambic pentameter too.
And straight the sun was rising to the brink / The thousand horsemen rode on miles untold / And yet my love bring back the rapid song / Let others think what they do know is bold.
Good First Lines for As Yet Unwritten Pieces
"Six foot tall rodents are bad news."
"On Thursday, January 23rd, Martin attended school without socks."
"Desdemona Rogers was:
an Amazon
a sea captain
a minor goddess
an elephant
invisible
orange
a vampire
a cyborg
interested in luge."
"My father listens to march music."
"No one knew how long Henry Fearsome had lived on a traffic island."
"This is Horatio: . This is not Horatio: ."
"A person shouldn't play field hockey in clown shoes."
"William lived in the City of William, situated scenically on the beautiful Port of William in front of the William mountains that marked the Eastern border of Williamsland. William was the king."
"The sun came out from behind the clouds just at sunset on the day that Leroy found an alien at the laundromat."
"The Sultan of Tapshun collected bridges."
"Morris, unfortunately, sounded rather like a cricket."
"'Wickerton, I believe you know your cousin JoJo?'"
"Ask not for whom the car stops -- it stops for thee."
"Admiration Arabella Finiola Jones hated poetry. And ham sandwiches. Which were not unrelated."
"There was one, and only one, movie theater in Norgeville, and it had shown nothing but 'Attack of the Moderately Large Groundhog IV' for as long as anyone could remember."
"The Unfortunate Case of Rolfie Peterson or The Coke Machine But Sleeps. A parable for the modern age."
Also: Giant squid.
Labels: being dumb, poetics, writing
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