# Double Dactyls, Anyone? *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 06 Aug 2003* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *06 Aug 2003, 16:31* 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 Wynn *06 Aug 2003, 20:37 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* Nice job, Dan'l. We should all hope to deserve one day to be so immortalized in song. Crush ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" > To: > 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. Turner *06 Aug 2003, 20:58 · follows James Wynn* 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 > 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 Ansley *07 Aug 2003, 18:36 · follows Alice K. Turner* 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 ---