tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post8159007562775309579..comments2023-05-12T05:58:15.192-06:00Comments on Signifying nothing: String theoryClint Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13534333959460032669noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-36064704900695654102007-07-30T20:48:00.000-06:002007-07-30T20:48:00.000-06:00Oh and I might note, that the Dickinson poem readi...Oh and I might note, that the Dickinson poem readily rattles about in my noggin. I guess it finally came out in the contrast.nClint Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13534333959460032669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-26366585514198093582007-07-30T10:24:00.000-06:002007-07-30T10:24:00.000-06:00Yeah after I wrote it, I remember that Dickinson p...Yeah after I wrote it, I remember that Dickinson poem. I wanted to keep it, however, because it also alludes to science and quality sounds a lot more like quantity (which I toyed around with in one version.) I also just like how "There's a certain...." rolls off the tongue.Clint Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13534333959460032669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-18059513384603525292007-07-30T09:24:00.000-06:002007-07-30T09:24:00.000-06:00And, not to be too much the lit crit guy, but the ...And, not to be too much the lit crit guy, but the opening line is a nice allusion (intended or not) to Emily Dickinson. "There's a certain slant of light/winter afternoons/that oppresses like the heft/of cathedral tunes." <BR/><BR/>I like the contemporary recasting of the line and the sentiment. Dickinson's sense of heft is, as always, theological. Your's is familial, more intimate.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, there's my reading of the first line.middlebrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810341455860537174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-71474187525817300162007-07-29T17:56:00.000-06:002007-07-29T17:56:00.000-06:00after delivering a sermon x 3, and laboring over i...after delivering a sermon x 3, and laboring over it for a week, + or - a few days, it is refreshing to read your poem. It has a sad and hopeful flavor to it.Kendrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01810694809660143682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-63682144861352160732007-07-27T22:00:00.000-06:002007-07-27T22:00:00.000-06:00Sometimes you can miss your parents before they ar...Sometimes you can miss your parents before they are gone.Cordeliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13628357937461378086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12055006.post-57725025896550206242007-07-27T14:47:00.000-06:002007-07-27T14:47:00.000-06:00beautiful last linesbeautiful last linesLisa B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10646181766775405935noreply@blogger.com