Reflection #?? (I don't even know)

[mrpaulie]

So we're reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It's post apocalyptic and crazy and spectacularly depressing. I got to thinking: what if, after such a cataclysm, people started finding information that was wrong or made up but believed it to be true (imagine a whole group of people convinced of the greatness of Gandalf and in awe of Borat's amazing

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[fantom07]

I actually really, really like this Paulie. I like it a lot.

[drmacd_snc]

I agree with Meg. I really really like this. What is that form again? And how does one do it? (She said, with an eye to steal...)

[mrpaulie]

Billy Collins made it up while he was ranting about the silliness of fixed French forms. You write a line, repeat it, write another line, repeat it, and then take the words from the first and third line and write 2 new lines. Do the same for 2 more stanzas. Then you write a fourth stanza using only the words from each of the original lines (1 and 3 from each stanza).

I have seen variants where you are allowed to change the words in order to form more coherent sentences, so long as you keep the base of the words the same. Personally I like the way it comes out without changing the words at all.

[cybergoat]

Damn, Paulie, that's good. Can you loan me The Road if you get the chance? I've been meaning to pick it up forever and keep forgetting to. Also I have a hankering to read the last Kushiel's novel if you know where it is. I swear I'll read Perdido Street Station and get it back to you. Trade, perhaps? See you at the dance tomorrow!

[mrpaulie]

Yeah no problem. I'm done with it on Monday. Also I know I have Kushiel's Justice somewhere in my house.

P.S. I told Laurie I would get her the name of that one post-apoc book you loaned me, I just can't remember it. Help me out?

[cybergoat]

A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Unless it was a different one, I know I was also trying to get you to read Dies the Fire by S. M. Stirling.

[drmacd_snc]

Thanks for the titles. Read Canticle this summer on other advice; liked it about 50%. Paul, was it Dies the Fire that you liked a lot? I hope so... I'm adding it to my list.

[sieve1979]

I think this is the formulation Souljaboy used in the Superman dat hoe lyrics.

*ducks the angry fists of intellectual breathless outrage*
*ducks the angry fists of intellectual breathless outrage*
*yells out quacks of epitaphs*
*yells out quacks of epitaphs*
The angry duck quacks breathless
Fists make intellectual epitaphs

That was kinda fun. (I like it. Just thought it was funny to say that some french contrarian was the influence of a pretty dumb hip hop song....then I got lost in a "ducks" pun....sorry)