"my love will follow you / down every highway of your soul / you can leave me far behind"

[larryhammer]

Why there were so many Dutch still-life paintings of food. (via)

22,000 dominoes, heading for a fall. (via)

"The Flight of the Geese" by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts. I've seen more than one 5-line waka covering the exact same ground.

---L.

Subject quote from "My Love Will Follow You," Miller & Miller.

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That domino vid was pretty amazing. I wonder how many people it took to set it up?

[larryhammer]

And how did they keep from jostling the pyramid while setting it up?

---L.

[thistleingrey.livejournal.com]

This.

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

That's a wonderful, eerie poem... from a poet whose name I'd never come across before. Thank you.

[larryhammer]

Not a name to conjure with, no.

---L.

[(Anonymous)]

It makes an interesting comparison to a waka to be sure. Like, the whole last four or five lines would be left unsaid in a waka, but still understood. Would that be possible in English too, or is our poetic tradition too sprawling and variegated to be sure that readers will get the intended allusion? (And how would the answer to this question change if the poem had been written in 900 CE instead of a thousand years later? I guess even then you would want a final line or half-line saying "Such things are beyond man's control!" or "So a man's woes are decided for him!" or something like that...) --Matt

[larryhammer]

I suspect it would require the creation of a specific subtradition (with distinct genre markers) to make it possible. Such, alas, is our wyrd.

---L.