dammit

i was hoping for some clues on foot and rhythm and maybe some turns of phrase or imagery to help pin down

the subject matter sounded vaguely preraphaelite to me-- you know, old myths and legends and what not. some sort of lancelot shit.

so i though rossetti and took a cursory look but didn't look like it.

i've never read the cavaliers. anyway im now resorting to brute force---google searches, etc. pathetic!

if it was a dream you should write it. poems that come from dreams are the best. just say no to visitors.

The description's too vague to say for sure but it sounds something from Tennyson's Idylls of the King.

I don't know much about poetry, but I was thinking Keats as well. But it's not Keats, so way am I saying anything?

Anyway, I would need way more information to even Google this, but of the pre-20th century poems I know, I wonder...

Could it be "Porphyria's Lover?"

there once was a man from Nantucket?????

But that's a gargantuan freaking cycle of Arthurian legend! It's like 20 poems. Which one do you think it might be specifically? I remember the one about the jealousy of Geraint. That one has some traveling and some hemming and hawing and fear of death and whatnot, but it's not a perfect fit by any means.

Goddammit this is infuriating.

i did check for lancelot and elaine but that wasn't quite it

she dies and he ain't coming

and this morning he said short poem

aghh

wish he was more helpful-- i hate these fucking mysteries

eh, who am i kidding, they're highly entertaining

I'm really not trying to fuck with anyone.

I have a friend who gets very anxious whenever I don't return a call/text right away. She assumes I've died.

This brought up a vague memory of a poem I read a long time ago. I tried searching through books, then google, then asked here.

It's no big deal. No one panic. Enjoy your day.

noooooooo! don't take our toys awayyyyy!!!

FOUND IT!

I'm an idiot.

Strange fits of passion have I known. Wordsworth.


My horse moved on; hoof after hoof
He raised, and never stopp’d:
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropp’d.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slide
Into a lover’s head!
‘O mercy!’ to myself I cried,
‘If Lucy should be dead!’

Keats was really close. I'll split the non-existent prize.

ahhhhhh... satisfaction!

it's great to close those open loops and it's great fun trying

we should make like, a game

ha ha ha ha

Between whom?

I totally said before we knew Keats was close that I thought of Keats. So... y'know... for your consideration and whatnot.

Bah, I'm borderline poetry illiterate, so whatever. Except with the classless Beat hearhens :cool:

I was going to say, if we all need more distractions (which I sure as hell do), this could be something we obsessively flip out over all the time! :)

But would it be 20-questions style, or more of this incidental business of someone trying to remember something and having next to no information about what it is? Eh?

20 questions nah, that's a goofy game

guess the poem--that's it

speaking of "close", and keats, my scattershot was so near, i was scanning coleridge last evening, and of course no luck

ps- because of the unwanted visitor who interrupted the dreamed poem (kubla khan)

(im crazy i know)

Easy peasy:

Falconer

Rough beast

Bethlehem

Go!

"god I hate poetry." - The Dead MIlkmen

lolyeats

what's that widening gyre again

religioso y filisteo

That's the motherfuckin' second coming.

Er... what is "The Second Coming?"

Goddammit

ha ha ha ha

today im trying to get started on robert burton's anatomy of melancholy

a very readable online edition can be found here: http://www.exclassics.com/anatomy/anatint.htm

the one i found on gutenberg is a mess, all words jumbled on the page, at least the kindle version. this one is better, the pdf version is more than decent.

not sure i'll manage to read it but have to give it a shot...

Honestly, it was brilliant. I suspect Rob might be into this one too.

I'm now on this absolute beast of a book



It's nearly a 1000 pages and only covers the Beatles up to 1962. One for the geeks is putting it lightly! Good read so far, mind.

Also, never has the saying 'don't judge a book by its cover' ever been more apt than in this one. Who the fuck thought that was a decent cover. You can go on microsoft word and come up with a better cover than that.

wow, you'd reallly have to be into the Beatles to go there (excludes me, for sure, I wouldn't devote 10 minutes to them)

Do Liverpudlians get a discount on books about The Beatles?

I'm almost certain I saw that at the library with a different cover.

Not sure why I didn't pick it up. It was free after all.

Oh yeah. 1000 pages.

I just finished a Dick Francis novel. Not sure what I'll read next.

No. They're expected to have all the knowledge about them ingrained before their 5th birthday.


Funny thing is there's an extended edition that's 1700 pages. That's taking it a tad too far for me.

Read Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book, Astrophysics for People In a Hurry

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I'd read the fuck out of that Beatles book. Never heard of it before. Is there a second volume that covers their pop culture domination? Or, like, the first three years of it?

Been a while since I had a good Beatles read. Love me a Beatles book.

not reading any Game of Thrones!

just finished Exit Ghost. A bit scattered about, but Roth is sure a commander of the language.

It's part of a trilogy and he's still writing the second one. I was pretty peeved to find that it's "expected" to come out in 2020 -_- He said he reckons he'll take that one from 1963-67

I've nearly finished this one now and honestly, it might as well be seen as the last word on the Beatles. No one is gonna top the amount of depth, research, myth destroying as has gone on in this book.

I've just got past Stuart Sutcliffe's death which was pretty heartbreaking. Paul just comes across as a total cunt over his treatment of Stuart.

Started Joe Hill's The Fireman yesterday. Definitely been on that Joe Hill kick the past few months with Locke & Key, I've been so focused on reading GNs though its been awhile since I've read a novel without the graphics.

Aw man I really want to read it now but just started two new books that I'm determined to finish. I'm more interested in the next phase, but I enjoy reading about the Beatles period.

Also, Paul was a major cunt a lot of the time, it seems. Don't you think? John gets the cunt treatment most, but Paul was not all sunshine and puppy songs. He was a bit of a precious little shit, and control freak.

Remember in the Anthology film? There's one scene where Paul and George are under a tree, and Paul is regaling the interviewer with some tales from this period or that, and kind of being passive aggressive, and George just sits there and quietly strums his guitar and doesn't say a Fucking word. Tension is palpable. Harrison had spent a lifetime putting up with the guy's shit, and was just not even Fucking around anymore. What an uncomfortable series that was. Haha.

The Goldseekers - W. R. Burnett

adult story of men going to look for gold in the Yukon

Finished Terence McKenna's Food Of The Gods. read it back in 1992, and read it again.

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ha ha, me too! (not now, but then)

coffee and sugar ruined us all, eh?

ps- great review!

thnx!

I am myself a caffeine addict (in the AM). used to be a sugar addict. used to be tobacco addict.

me too with the tobaccker. it actually helps with ADD/concentration/coffee business. lets your park yourself in front of a dull task the whole day! but not no more...

btw did you know (learned this from ken burns) the drink of choice of the civil war was coffee? every soldier drank something like 1/2 a gallon a day (this precision im not certain about... would have to rewatch). but explains a lot, huh?

i still drink coffee mornings and post-lunch. with great suspicion though.