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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 03:13:47 PM »

Fractured / fragMentAl proZe ...
ProZe fragments in VulgarScripts ...
&/or ...
Goethe: ... things we are used to haunt the mind ... paradise is what one/we left behind ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:54:41 PM »

After Ovid. The ‘author’ intended to (re)write a story o’War&Peace’. But Love (& other distractions - including not enough talent(s)) prevented this. So, by stealing a metrical foot/metre from every other line (this might be seen as an ironical smile at Virgil’s epically opening line (in adapted translation): “of arms and the man/woman common humanity I sing’) he pretends to be a Love songster instead ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:30:50 PM »

We sat by a pond one day in autumn,
Being, so we thought, questingly quarrelsome,
But the details (o’) of dispute, meaning (o’so)(2/too) much then
Now, crowd-absorbed, are forgotten.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:20:16 PM »

You is I, and i is u,
We is one/1, & we is 2/too(much 2 ask 4) ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:16:22 PM »

Brown’n: i is I. U is you ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 11, 2025, 02:10:53 PM »

But the prince, you C., had got(10) blott’O, and his avenues were cream and clowDy rotten, and his (previously fairly flowing) streets were hard (,solid) and somewhat clotted.

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 10, 2025, 05:49:44 PM »

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 10, 2025, 05:44:51 PM »

YOU loved with 'ALL YOU HEART AND ALL YOUr soul', I sniggered @ the 'fallin'off' ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 10, 2025, 05:37:43 PM »

ABC's leXicons o'Lovin'Cliches ...

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South Tyneside Stop the War / Re: Notes towards a new anti-war 'epic' ...

« Last post by Phil Talbot on September 10, 2025, 05:33:47 PM »

i IS eYE, [&] u Is ewe
we is one AND WE IS TWo