Re: A crashing but meaningless blow

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It appears that you're writing in the english language, but beyond that, I have little idea of what you're talking about.


Posted by: eli cash | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:25 AM
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That's the normal way of things.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:26 AM
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Some people think the guy who wrote Two Gentlemen of Verona is a pretty good playwright.


Posted by: BrianZ | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:29 AM
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Some people think the guy who wrote "A crashing but meaningless blow" is a pretty good blogger.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:32 AM
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And they're right!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:33 AM
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What is this, Slate week at Unfogged?


Posted by: Gabriel | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:34 AM
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Lobofilho is sucking up to Dylan-haters, probably AWB.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:40 AM
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There was no one even there to call his bluff.


Posted by: neil | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 9:59 AM
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Christopher Ricks, for example.


Posted by: Vance Maverick | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 10:22 AM
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At one point, someone around here suggested that trolling your own blog is in bad taste.


Posted by: slolernr | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 10:32 AM
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At one point, someone around here suggested that trolling your own blog is in bad taste a sign of desperation.


Posted by: strasmangelo jones | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 10:35 AM
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I'm with lobofilho here. I can distinctly remember sneering at Dylan when I was fourteen or fifteen on the reasonable grounds that the words were no bloody good. Then I discovered drugs. I couldn't listen to the words any more. What I heard was the person, the projected emotion. All of a sudden that was more powerful than any real poetry.

In some senses the whole of my life has been an attempt to row back from that discovery, or at least to beat against the current. It is not coincidence that everyone going through their first divorce develops a compulsion to listen to Blood on the Tracks.


Posted by: Nworb Werdna | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 11:36 AM
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12: why beat against that particular current?


Posted by: soup biscuit | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 11:43 AM
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13: Masturbation knows no law.


Posted by: John Emerson | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 12:16 PM
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13: Try telling that to Paul Reubens.


Posted by: Anthony Cartouche | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 12:19 PM
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D'oh, I meant 14: Try telling that to Paul Reubens. Damn tricky ordinal numbers!


Posted by: Anthony Cartouche | Link to this comment | 11- 6-07 12:20 PM
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Also true: Ben has never tried any fun or interesting drugs.


Posted by: dave zacuto | Link to this comment | 11- 8-07 2:38 AM
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