a fool in the forest

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  • A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' the
        forest,
    A motley fool; a miserable world!
    As I do live by food, I met a fool
    Who laid him down and bask'd him
        in the sun,
    And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good
        terms,
    In good set terms and yet a motley
        fool.

    As You Like It,
    Act II, Scene 7

    L'homme y passe à travers des
        forêts de symboles
    Qui l'observent avec des regards
        familiers.

    Les Fleurs du Mal,
    “Correspondances”

    [T]here is almost no subject-matter, and what little one can disentangle is foolish....
    One would call the style verbose, except that by definition verbosity is the use of words in excess of the occasion, and there seems to be no occasion.

    Yvor Winters,
    Forms of Discovery, Ch. 7


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November 02, 2004

I Sing the Body Electoral

Let us all send up a prayer and a hope that by this time tomorrow we will have a clear notion of who will next serve as President of the United States. My ballot is cast. This is not a big-time political weblog, so I won't disclose my own choice or try to influence you in yours other than to urge you to make one and to express it. To which end, I submit this bit of double-dactyl electoral doggerel dedicated to swingin' too-close-to-call undecided independent battlegrounds everywhere:

Polls Apart

Citizens, citizens:
Hie to your precincts for
Kerry and Edwards or
Cheney and Bush.

Leave no chad dangling, no
Franchise unexercised.
Vote! For today is when
Shove comes to push.

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