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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 20:44:45 +0000
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On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:54:52 +0000, W.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.

1) She did not change *any* words, Donkey.  Since she had never read
Creeley's poem, she had nothing to change.

2) There several differences between her opening line and Creeley's.  In
fact, only 3 words are the same: "up," "like," and "newspapers."

More importantly, the things described by their words are totally
different.  NancyGene compares YESTERDAYS to READ newspapers; whereas
Creeley compares DAYS to UNREAD ones.

IOW: NancyGene's poem is describing MEMORIES, whereas Creeley's is
describing TIME.


> And of course here comes her fellow thug troll Michael Pendragon to try
> to explain it all away.
>
> Right.

I'm just explaining (to an imbecile) why NancyGene's one line of poetry
is vastly superior to everything you and both of your Georges have ever
written.

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