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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
Newsgroups: alt.arts.poetry.comments,rec.arts.poems
Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line (from Eva Saulitis)
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2025 22:20:50 +0000
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On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:46:36 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:23:55 +0000, Will-Dockery wrote:
>>
>>>> HarryLime wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 22:57:18 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 21:35:32 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 21:20:30 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:44:41 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 0:04:15 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.novabbs.com/arts/article.php?id=255731&group=alt.arts.poetry.comments
>>>>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000, Michael Monkey Peabrain (MPP) aka
>>>>> "HarryLime" wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I realized from the content of NancyGene's posts that they were
>>>>> intelligent, well-educated, and better written than anyone here.
>>>>> Naturally, I asked them to start contributing to the "Sampler."  And I
>>>>> was right in doing so.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are the opening lines of NancyGene's latest poem:
>>>>>
>>>>> "Yesterdays stack up like piles of read newspapers,
>>>>> Cluttering my mind and obstructing my day."
>>>>>
>>>>> That's poetry of the highest quality.
>>>>>
>>>>> The opening line is very good. It's almost as good as the opening line
>>>>> of Robert Creeleys poem, "The Days Pile Up":
>>>>>
>>>>> "The days pile up like unread newspapers,"
>>>>>
>>>>> I do hope "Dr." NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
>>>>> something they would call, you know -- "plagiarism".
>>>>>
>>>>> NG changed one word and suddenly she thinks that the line is "original"
>>>>> now.
>>
>>>>>
>>>>> And of course here comes her fellow thug troll Michael Pendragon to try
>>>>> to explain it all away.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm just explaining
>>>>>
>>>>> You're just defending your fellow thug troll as usual and as expected,
>>>>> Harry.
>>>>>
>>>>> And so it goes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are you saying that stacks of read newspapers
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm saying the thought wasn't really original for Nancy Gene.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do you think that the oppression of memories and the passage of time are
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The earlier poem by Eva Saulitis is very similar, if you were honest
>>> you'd admit it:
>>
>> I've read both NancyGene's and Eva Saulitis' poems, and find NancyGene's
>
> The Eva Saulitis poem was written a number of years before the Nancy
> Gene poem.

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