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*Limelight* Posted January 9, 2009 Author Share Posted January 9, 2009 The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde. Love it so far, very well written and humorous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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udanax Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 (edited) QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Jan 9 2009, 06:51 PM) The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde. Love it so far, very well written and humorous. And you think I'm bad.... I read that sophmore year.... Your Literature teacher probably hasn't made you analyze anything this trippy either. nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable of all to use a highfalootin phrase luxuries that is or to wit farming and be it needlessly added my Uncle Sol's farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who'd given my Uncle Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm) -- E. E. Cummings By the way, the lack of capitals in this passage is not a mistake. It's part of Cummings style. Edited January 29, 2009 by udanax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Limelight* Posted January 29, 2009 Author Share Posted January 29, 2009 QUOTE (udanax @ Jan 28 2009, 06:30 PM) QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Jan 9 2009, 06:51 PM) The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde. Love it so far, very well written and humorous. And you think I'm bad.... I read that sophmore year.... Your Literature teacher probably hasn't made you analyze anything this trippy either. nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable of all to use a highfalootin phrase luxuries that is or to wit farming and be it needlessly added my Uncle Sol's farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who'd given my Uncle Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm) -- E. E. Cummings By the way, the lack of capitals in this passage is not a mistake. It's part of Cummings style. I know about the capitals thing Nice poem Karina, i liked it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
udanax Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Jan 29 2009, 01:07 AM) QUOTE (udanax @ Jan 28 2009, 06:30 PM) QUOTE (*Limelight* @ Jan 9 2009, 06:51 PM) The Importance of Being Earnest- Oscar Wilde. Love it so far, very well written and humorous. And you think I'm bad.... I read that sophmore year.... Your Literature teacher probably hasn't made you analyze anything this trippy either. nobody loses all the time i had an uncle named Sol who was a born failure and nearly everybody said he should have gone into vaudeville perhaps because my Uncle Sol could sing McCann He Was A Diver on Xmas Eve like Hell Itself which may or may not account for the fact that my Uncle Sol indulged in that possibly most inexcusable of all to use a highfalootin phrase luxuries that is or to wit farming and be it needlessly added my Uncle Sol's farm failed because the chickens ate the vegetables so my Uncle Sol had a chicken farm till the skunks ate the chickens when my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner or by drowning himself in the watertank but somebody who'd given my Uncle Sol a Victor Victrola and records while he lived presented to him upon the auspicious occasion of his decease a scruptious not to mention splendiferous funeral with tall boys in black gloves and flowers and everything and i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my Uncle Sol and started a worm farm) -- E. E. Cummings By the way, the lack of capitals in this passage is not a mistake. It's part of Cummings style. I know about the capitals thing Nice poem Karina, i liked it It's abstract writing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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