Double Dactyls, Anyone?
The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 06 Aug 2003
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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 ...

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James Wynn — 06 Aug 2003, 20:37
  follows, by subject match 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" <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
> 
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Alice K. Turner — 06 Aug 2003, 20:58
  follows, by subject match 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
> 
> 
> -- 

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William Ansley — 07 Aug 2003, 18:36
  follows, by subject match 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

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