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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: NastyGoon lifts a line
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:07:25 +0000
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:28:45 +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".
>
> Note that George Dance didn't make any accusations, only an observation.

Wrong, Donkey.

George clearly specified that his "observation" was contingent upon
whether NancyGene credited Creeley for her poem -- which he knows full
well that she did not.  He knows this because I presented the opening
lines of her poem as being an example of *her* talent as a poet.  Had
the lines been cribbed from Mr. Creeley, my example would not have
applied.

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