the overall pluggandisp can be glorked from context.

[shweta_narayan]

Still aten't dead. Just going through a series of minor computer/health/internet disasters; the usual. Right now I'm not too sick to post but I am too sick to make diss progress, so... er... here I am

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The Tenth Muse

[helivoy]

"Sappho, because Shakespeare would respect her Aeolic Greek, but she'd think his English was mere babbling." Aye. But also because she said in four lines or less what it took him a whole play (or at least an entire scene) to convey.

Love shook my heart,
Like the wind on the mountain
Troubling the oak-trees.

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The Moon has set, and
The Pleiades. Midnight,
The hours pass,
And I lie alone.

Re: The Tenth Muse

[shweta_narayan]

Well and that is a huge discussion to have, not a given - can poetry and plays ever be said to be saying the same thing?

The experience of them, and the cognitive structure experiencers bring to them, is so very different that I'd say no; but the focus that critique has placed for so long on (I think largely falsely) distinguishing meaning from experience means I'm probably in a minority.

[zwol]

The Jargon File is not always a reliable secondary source, but it credits your sentence to "David Moser, quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his Metamagical Themas column in the January 1981 Scientific American" and if I search for David Moser I get, among other things, this incredibly self-referential story so the attribution seems plausible.

Hippy pappy publications!

[vvvexation]

And most of the sentences on the page Shweta linked are found in Hofstadter.

[zwol]

You'd probably really like Sultana Lena's Gift and her other artificer bird stories, I think.

[shweta_narayan]

I admit, I didn't read most of them - couldn't without my eyes crossing! - but those I recognize probably all trace back to him somewhere along the way.

[shweta_narayan]

Thank you :)

And - two you say? then you'd better get reading quick, or there may be more *big grin*
Once I fix all the DAMN BROKEN in my current draft :muttermuttermutter:

[keyan_bowes]

Yay Shweta! That is just plain amazingly over-the-top awesome!

[shweta_narayan]

Thank you :)