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2010-06-10 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Beck Quotes Kipling, Left Despises Poetry Thinking It's His

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-06-10 11:15|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
That's pretty much the gist of the current economic crisis.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-06-10 17:32|| 2010-06-10 17:32|| Front Page Top

#2 I have always adored Kipling - as a writer he is so up there. As the poet of brutal experience and reality, there is none better.
I know - he has been so unpopular among the very modern canon - but for someone who wrote about people who went and did very boring,yet necessary jobs, and could tell a ripping good story (TheMan Who Would Be King)
And his range and voice when it came to telling stories by various characters was perfectly breathtaking. He has astonishing applicability now and over the last hundred years.
He and Mark Twain are my personal gods and guides when it comes to telling a story.

Posted by Sgt.Mom 2010-06-10 21:15|| http://www.celiahayes.com 2010-06-10 21:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I've got a few more candidates, Sgt. Mom, (Jane Austen, anyone?) but I've even got Mr. Kipling's children's tales in my bookcases.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-06-10 22:50|| 2010-06-10 22:50|| Front Page Top

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