[New-Poetry] Dictionaires????

[Anny Ballardini]

the existentialist empty void self-gratifying itself [perhaps more than what
we thought it would] forced into histories of pre-packed words as much as
any "ism" was suffocated into patterned brick beds carved into our souls
left to howl when at night all outside square support is lost and darkness
reigns in unconscious rest

?

Ah! That kind of gratification

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:

>  The gratification of the abyss, scratching the vacuum in all of us with
> the post-capitalist aura of nothingness, the empty storefront at which we
> stand and wait for our lives to return, like staring into an empty mirror.
> (Some tastes are acquired.)
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:
> new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] *On Behalf Of *Anny Ballardini
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:15 PM
> *To:* NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &amp,Views
> *Subject:* Re: [New-Poetry] Dictionaires????
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> what kind of gratification is there to be received?
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> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
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> Low on instant gratification? Click here--
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> http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4258/337/1600/IMG_3026.jpg
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> Hal
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> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
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> They're a bridge to nowhere.
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> Halvard Johnson
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> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
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> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
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> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
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> *http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/vidalocabooks.html>
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> On Sep 24, 2008, at 12:19 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
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>  Hal,
> yes, hyperlinks ensure I get randomness and sidetracking in my e-diet,
> every day. And I probably get exposed to thousands of unusual words (sic
> transit gloria mundi) in a year's time.
> But it's not the same experience you get fumbling through pages of
> a dictionary. I think in those analog encounters I take more time with the
> odd entry, looking over the subdefintions, and forms of the word, roots,
> etymology, etc. 99 out of 100 times I Google for a 'quick defintion', I get
> it and get out. But I feel there is something lacking in that instant
> gratification. Call me a backsliding Luddite, but I'm starting to make a
> more conscious effort to reach for the cumbersome unabridged dictionary that
> was for a time gathering dust on the shelf behind my screen.
> Finnegan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:44 am
> Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Dictionaires????
>
> Finnegan, you're sounding like someone who's never gone
>
> web-surfing. Losing randomness? Losing sidetracking? No way.
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> Hal
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>
> McCain / Palin -- Just say thanks but no thanks.
>
> They're a bridge to nowhere.
>
>
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> ================
>
> halvard at earthlink.net
>
> halvard at gmail.com
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/index.html>
>
> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>
> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>
> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>
> *http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Ehalvard/vidalocabooks.html>
> *
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> On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:40 PM, JforJames at aol.com wrote:
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>  At the risk of old-fogeyism, I want to mourn the declining use of the
> print dictionary (or encyclopedia, for that matter).
> Nine times out of ten, flipping thru pages, trying to find the
> particular word/entry I was looking for (and sometimes the
> alphabetic sequence would escape me), I'd stumble across a strange or
> unusual word (a new world, one might say).
> You lose some of that randomness, the sidetracking that goes on, with
> the online versions.
> Finnegan
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