http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/ faults | sins | abuses Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:17:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14250 mike Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:47:39 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14250 I was particularly fond of the halibut line, as well. And the lobster. But I hadn't thought about sending it out -- hmm -- maybe I'll do some poking around for online journals that do surrealist / avant-garde stuff. I think a big part of what it works for me is the fact that it comes from a guide to pronunciation, and so the sounds line up in interesting ways; I'd love to find a similar text from the eighteenth century, just to get that even greater distance from our current speech patterns. I was particularly fond of the halibut line, as well. And the lobster. But I hadn’t thought about sending it out — hmm — maybe I’ll do some poking around for online journals that do surrealist / avant-garde stuff. I think a big part of what it works for me is the fact that it comes from a guide to pronunciation, and so the sounds line up in interesting ways; I’d love to find a similar text from the eighteenth century, just to get that even greater distance from our current speech patterns.

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14140 Steven D. Krause Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:30:11 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14140 Great stuff, Mike. You ought to send this out.... Great stuff, Mike. You ought to send this out….

]]> http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14108 joanna Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:38:21 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/04/17/the-disordered-house/#comment-14108 It's the " large quantity of halibut on the quarantine grounds" that cracks me up. Great found poetry! It’s the ” large quantity of halibut on the quarantine grounds” that cracks me up. Great found poetry!

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