Comments on: Emergency! Please Help! https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/ Nick Montfort Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:47:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Scott https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11807 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:47:19 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11807 And I said here’s your fucking lunch.

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By: David DeSmith https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11678 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:30:52 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11678 If you asked him, the difference between whispering waves and wavering whispers wasn’t worth explaining.

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By: Kevin https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11673 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:56:13 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11673 She’s got it, yeah baby she’s got it. I’m your Venus, I’m your fire. What’s your desire?

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By: Atavistic Narrativist https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11646 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:49:31 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11646 It was the schooner Hesperus that listed in the sand,
Dismasted and split against the rocks of that shadow land.

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By: Anonymous https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11644 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:25:17 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11644 The lovely woman-child Kaa was mercilessly chained to the cruel post of the warrior-chief Beast, with his barbarous tribe now stacking wood at her nubile feet, when the strong, clear voice of the poetic and heroic Handsomas roared, “Flick your Bic, crisp that chick, and you’ll feel my steel through your last meal.”

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By: Aric Maddux https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11637 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:13:20 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11637 Nobody slows down for the school zone in front of the Montessori.

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By: Chris C. https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11636 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:12:56 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11636 Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent.

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By: Babooshka https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11635 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:52:50 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11635 She wanted to test her husband.
She knew exactly what to do:
A pseudonym, to fool him.
She couldn’t have made a worse move.

She sent him scented letters,
And he received them with a strange delight.
Just like his wife
But how she was before the tears,
And how she was before the years flew by,
And how she was when she was beautiful.

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By: Anonymous https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11633 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:17:34 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11633 http://mjcache.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/poetic-license21.jpg

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By: Marie https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11631 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:09:11 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11631 Responding to stadtgorilla:

All hope abandon, ye who enter in!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1882)
All hope abandon, ye who enter here
– Henry Francis Cary (1805–1814)
Leave every hope, ye who enter!
– Charles Eliot Norton (1891)
Leave all hope, ye that enter
– Carlyle-Wicksteed (1932)
Lay down all hope, you that go in by me.
– Dorothy L. Sayers (1949)
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
– John Ciardi (1954)
Abandon every hope, you who enter.
– Charles S. Singleton (1970)
No room for hope, when you enter this place
– C. H. Sisson (1980)
Abandon every hope, who enter here.
– Allen Mandelbaum (1982)
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
– Robert Pinsky (1993)
Abandon every hope, all you who enter
– Mark Musa (1995)
Abandon every hope, you who enter.
– Robert M. Durling (1996)

Verbatim, the line translates as “Leave (lasciate) every (ogne) hope (speranza), ye (voi) that (ch’) enter (intrate).”
–{According to someone at wikipedia.org}

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By: Marie https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11630 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:55:37 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11630 any time after 7:35 PM

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By: Marie https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11629 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:53:36 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11629 Speaking of Fuck…

I can provide context if necessary.

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By: Patsy https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11627 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:40:14 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11627 The knowledge lives in webs and networks as it has in books. [Weinberger, not I]

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By: josemanuel https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11624 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:52:37 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11624 For half a century
Poetry was
The solemn fools’ paradise.
Until I came along
With my rollercoaster.
Get on it, if you want.
But here’s my disclaimer: you might get off
Bleeding through your mouths and noses.

Nicanor Parra (1914-)

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By: Mark Musante https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11617 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:03:33 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11617 Words lost? Find help, Nick. Help find lost words.

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By: Peter Pears https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11616 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:58:08 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11616 Sia! Strofe, ultima dea! Ancor dona al tuo poeta la sfolgorante idea, la fiamma consueta. Io, a te, mentre tu vivida a me sgorghi dal cuore, darò per rima ul gelido spiro d’in uom che muore.

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By: Peter Pears https://nickm.com/post/2011/11/emergency-please-help/comment-page-2/#comment-11615 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:55:55 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1998#comment-11615 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.

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