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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: Lovely film, I cried
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.112506.16436@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:25:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.210928.10009@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.170008.28557@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdb15@cl.cam.ac.uk writes:
- >>No, Karl's clearly a budding poet:
- >>
- >> Last evening, whilst in Kay's domain,
- >> I watched "The Crying Game"...
- >
- >And a bad one, too. His scansion sucks! (No comment on what else
- >might engage in that kind of behavior...)
-
- Eh? It's perfect: iambic tetrameter followed by iambic trimeter. The
- verse *might* continue like this (I make no claim of artistic merit,
- nor of reflecting Karl's actual sentiment!):
-
- Last evening, whilst in Kay's domain,
- I watched "The Crying Game";
- For reasons that I can't explain,
- I felt a sense of shame.
-
- Just a minute, aren't you the person who recently claimed on soc.singles
- that Douglas Adams invented the phrase "believe six impossible things
- before breakfast"?
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