Double Dactyls, Anyone?

The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 06 Aug 2003
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/4148

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes06 Aug 2003, 16:31original
Though you might not think it to look at my list output, I've been in a terrible writer's block for over a year, which broke recently and all sorts of stuff has been pouring out (rather like the fellow in the "Calliope" issue of THE SANDMAN). Which includes these -- don't ask me why, but I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things ringing in my aural cortex. Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance endlessly pondering, microbotanically, whether their novels were plotted by chance. Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi, while publishing volumes of erudite lore, on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria hoped that the market might bear a few more. Okay, I'll shut up now ...
James Wynn06 Aug 2003, 20:37original

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Nice job, Dan'l. We should all hope to deserve one day to be so immortalized in song. Crush ----- Original Message -----
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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <katbarx at hotmail.com> To: <urth at urth.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 11:31 AM Subject: (urth) Double Dactyls, Anyone? Though you might not think it to look at my list output, I've been in a terrible writer's block for over a year, which broke recently and all sorts of stuff has been pouring out (rather like the fellow in the "Calliope" issue of THE SANDMAN). Which includes these -- don't ask me why, but I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things ringing in my aural cortex. Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance endlessly pondering, microbotanically, whether their novels were plotted by chance. Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi, while publishing volumes of erudite lore, on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria hoped that the market might bear a few more. Okay, I'll shut up now ... --Blattid _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --
Alice K. Turner06 Aug 2003, 20:58original

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Okely-dokely, ever so grateful, kind of you, Dan'l Daheny-Oakes. Can you please, notwithstanding extra-legality, overnight first-class some of them smokes? -alga ----- I woke up this morning with the beginnings of these, uh, things
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ringing in my aural cortex. Higglety-pigglety, Alice K. Turner considered Wolfe, Crowley, Wynne-Jones and Jack Vance endlessly pondering, microbotanically, whether their novels were plotted by chance. Hoccitus-poccitus, Andre-Driussi, while publishing volumes of erudite lore, on Gene Wolfe's vocabular armamentaria hoped that the market might bear a few more. Okay, I'll shut up now ... --Blattid _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail --
William Ansley07 Aug 2003, 18:36original

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Ah, double dactyls. As I recall I first came across this verse form in an Isaac Asimov essay. You have inspired me Dan'l. Here is my own modest effort. Clickety-Clackety Writer Gene Rodman Wolfe Really ranks up with a Scintillant few. But wearing sheep's clothing Scientifictional, He almost never is Given his due. William Ansley

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