Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:52 AM
Agreed. I just moved to Alaska, a 12-hour flight at the end of a two-day party. I'm in no mood to continue this.
Re: This Is Me by PoeticXTC	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:48 AM
I'd like to try a different approach. The problem is not your poetry; it's that you're not very good-looking.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	5-Jan-06/9:48 AM
I don't think it really matters that much as long as their not bothering me. Whatever floats their boat. Maybe we should just start typing "The last word" back and forth until one of us gives up. This brain-fencing can be exhausting.
Re: a comment on You Have It Backwards by LilMsLadyPoet	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:47 AM
Q: What can we do to bring about world peace? MOTHER TERESA: Go home and love your family.
Re: a comment on Nightfall by Niphredil	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:44 AM
The most famous use of "darkling" is the line "we are here as on a darkling plain", in Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach. If darkling really only meant "in the dark", you should be able to substitute "in the dark" for darkling in Arnold's poem... We are here as on a in the dark plain. CONCLUSIONS: darkling also means "darkish; in the process of darkening".
Re: a comment on Construction Lot (edit) by zodiac	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:38 AM
Yes, I meant that they're building, not that something's already built. I'll work on that. Maybe just saying "they build in this" instead of "they've built"?
Re: a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	5-Jan-06/9:36 AM
Thank you too. I think my favorite type of response is one filled with adjectives. I'll try to take a look at more of your poems but I work nights so I've got to get some shut-eye right now.
Re: a comment on Romans 8:28 by amanda_dcosta	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:33 AM
Most nonlogicians think they know more than they know. So, logically, you're left withL What's it better to be, a logician who thinks he knows more than he knows or a nonlogician who thinks he knows more than he knows? Thinking you know more ceases to be a factor, except for dissing people.
Re: The Forgetting by Dovina	zodiac 209.193.9.200	5-Jan-06/9:26 AM
David Shenk, who is comfortably under fifty, makes the case in "The Forgetting" that a cure for senile dementia might not be an unmitigated blessing. He notes, for example, that one striking peculiarity of the disease is that its sufferers often suffer less and less as it progresses. Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is gruellingly repetitious precisely because the patient himself has lost the cerebral equipment to experience anything as a repetition. Shenk quotes patients who speak of "something delicious in oblivion" and who report an enhancement of their sensory pleasures as they come to dwell in an eternal, pastless Now. If your short-term memory is shot, you don't remember, as you stoop to smell a rose, that you've been stooping to smell the same rose all morning. http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/010910fa_FACT1
Re: Memoirs of a miners son by Caducus	lmp 141.154.134.3	5-Jan-06/9:14 AM
damn, that smarts. very excellent.
Re: The copper man and Labrador by Caducus	lmp 141.154.134.3	5-Jan-06/9:09 AM
sadly, a very common scene of today's world. the obscure references (so wonderfully deciphered by ALChemy) were a bit hard to follow. the mention of king george flipped me back in time and i was lost about the meaning of neon reapers. well done, very cerebral portrayal of events.
Re: Sunlighting by ALChemy	lmp 141.154.134.3	5-Jan-06/8:53 AM
a favorite now. thanks. very sweet, innocent, and lovely. a touch of melancholy, but a nice reminder of what is really important.
Re: a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy	lmp 141.154.134.3	5-Jan-06/8:51 AM
and wasn't it Brando who was Don Carleone, as well? i think leaving it as "dawn" is a wonderfully subtle play on words; i didn't even catch it when i read it the first time. maybe because she was donning whilst it was dawning. in fact, when the poem is read aloud, noone would be the wiser.
Re: a comment on light [edited] by lmp	lmp 141.154.134.3	5-Jan-06/8:44 AM
ok, i feel just a weeee bit foolish. (i take it you mean the first "the"?). yeah, it actually makes it 6-7-5, doesn't it?
Re: a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	5-Jan-06/8:18 AM
Yep, you got it. I was inspired by my niece. I work the nightshift and I miss alot of chances to spend time with her. Thanks Joe.
Re: a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy	ALChemy 24.74.101.159	5-Jan-06/8:09 AM
No I meant "don" as a verb. As in "I donned a fancy suit for my date." Although Marlin Brando lived on an island so he might have donned a sarong.
Re: The copper man and Labrador by Caducus	some deleted user 62.171.194.5	5-Jan-06/7:24 AM
Man thats quite powerful. The image of the tramp is so noir, a site we don't stop to see. Well done, Howard.
Re: The Forgetting by Dovina	INTRANSIT 64.12.116.67	5-Jan-06/7:20 AM
Congrats on Divorcing Tennessee! Sorry I still don't know what to think of this one.
Re: a comment on Sunlighting by ALChemy	INTRANSIT 64.12.116.138	5-Jan-06/7:11 AM
I prefer the dawn spelling. traditionalist me. But a "Don" in a sarong could be the funniest thing ever invented!
Re: a comment on The Forgetting by Dovina	Dovina 209.247.222.83	5-Jan-06/6:20 AM
I think it's easier to improve ability than to improve imagination.