Comments | ysabetwordsmith: Poem: "Threatening Rain"

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Poem: "Threatening Rain"

Aug 08, 2014 23:36

This poem came out of the August 5, 2014 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Shirley Barrette.

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technoshaman August 9 2014, 05:21:02 UTC

"He talks a lot. He doesn't say much."
-- my math teacher in 8th grade.

Putin has a LOT of....flexible truths ... surrounding him.

Yes... ysabetwordsmith August 9 2014, 05:23:34 UTC

>> "He talks a lot. He doesn't say much."
-- my math teacher in 8th grade. <<

Well said.

>> Putin has a LOT of....flexible truths ... surrounding him. <<

I doubt he realizes there is such a thing as objective fact.

Re: Yes... technoshaman August 9 2014, 05:29:25 UTC

Well... Kant says there Kan't be an *objective* reality, because we Kan't get out of our own heads ... but certainly Putin's reality varies radically from consensus.....

Re: Yes... ysabetwordsmith August 9 2014, 05:33:13 UTC

I imagine that must be very limiting for people who actually have that restriction. Conversely I had to be reminded that most people spend their whole lives inside only one person's head -- their own -- and therefore find it confusing when an author skips around multiple viewpoints in a story.

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