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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:21:34 +0000
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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 6:42:12 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Feb 2025 6:07:30 +0000, 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".
>>
>> Another revisit, clearly showing George Dance made no accusations, just
>> an observation.
>
> I can't see how it could be any clearer. Maybe if I'd used NG's name
> twice:
>
> "I do hope 'Dr.' NastyGoon credited Mr. Creeley; otherwise that would be
> something NG] would call, you know -- 'plagiarism'."

Agreed I understood it instantly, yet they try to sneer as if they're
some kind of higher intelligence.

> Lying Michael was lying again.

It's what he does, like breathing is for the rest of us.

😏