Doug Kanter wrote:

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:

"W.T. Hatch" wrote in message
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:39:48 GMT, "Comcast News"
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message

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I may still hold the record for longest sentence ever written in
freshman advanced English placement at a certain university in the
midwest. Nearly 1000 words, full of phrases, semicolons, and commas,
perfect grammar, and absolute nonsense. Even then, I knew my
specialty
would be nonsense!

I had a college professor who would have failed you for using a "run
on"
sentence.

A 1000 word sentence is not the work of a proficient author.

Sir:

Tell that to William Faulkner (cf. "Intruder int he Dust," "As I Lay
Dying")

Or, for that matter, to James Joyce.

Most sincerely,
W.T. Hatch

P.S. Yes, I am quite aware that both authors are deceased

OK, but that's considered "artistic license". My son's lit class
included
some e.e. cummings. Forget the content.....oh my.


cummings is a favorite of mine. My favorite traditional poet probably is
Coleridge. But I wrote a 100-page paper on Thomas Chatterton for some
absurd reason while in "kollidge." The paper took almost as long to
write as Chatteron lived.

I really couldn't stomach poetry, at least whatever my professors wanted us
to read. I would've rather had my dick forcibly stuck in a toaster.

Well, I was an English major, and got a B.A. and an M.A. in lit and
aspects of lit. Study of poets and poetry was a big part of both
degrees. I liked most of what I read and wrote about, but there were
more than a few poets who left me cold. My faculty advisor while I was
working on my M.A. was a poet and, indeed, later was named Poet
Laureate. Interestingly, although his beginnings were about as humble
and backwoods as one can get, *he* spoke clearly and distinctly, with a
southern accent, and certainly did not sound like an ignorant sod-buster
from somewhere 100 miles from The Last Picture Show.

I really suggest Tennyson for anyone who wants to dig poetry. There is
no one finer.







--
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in
Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me -
you can't get fooled again." -George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept.
17, 2002