a fool in the forest: Parisians on the Grass, Alas

Epigraphs

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

Best Personal Blog
by a Legally-Oriented
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Blawg Review Awards 2005

Of Related Interest

December 15, 2004

Parisians on the Grass, Alas

There There

Zippity, zippity,
Alice B. Toklas served
Brownies at bedtime and
Everyone tripped;

Gertrude Stein dreamt of the
Battle of Agincourt:
“Arrows is arrows is
Arrows,” she quipped.

Posted on December 15, 2004 at 11:21 AM in Double Dactyls | Permalink

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Comments

Quite good! Yes, decidedly cool.

Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | December 15, 2004 at 07:53 PM

Bloggity, bloggity
Thinking poetic’lly
Writing this crap that I'll
Stick on the ’Net...

Pounding the keyboard
How long, O how long, Lord,
Have I been doing this?
Gee, I forget.

To come up with a post
Is like Hell. There I roast,
Straining for topics
And dripping with sweat.

Lift that writer’s block curse:
When in doubt, write some verse!
Today, double dactyl -
Tomorrow, son-NET!

Posted by: Steve | December 19, 2004 at 06:36 PM

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a fool in the forest

The personal & cultural web journal of George M. Wallace, an attorney practicing in Pasadena, California.