Re: Chessmen and Dominoes / Will Dockery

[email protected] (Will-Dockery)
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
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> Anonymous wrote:
> Will Dockery wrote:
> 
>> Bill Evans wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon <michaelmaleficapendragon> wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
>> Chessmen and Dominoes
>> 
>> Hair rolling down her back
>> he sank as if into a sea.
>> 
>> Line 1 describes a female subject, but line 2 switches the subject's sex.
>> 
>> I know what you're trying to do, but this structure is grammatically unsound.
>> 
>> Try modifying 1st line to focus on the male subject.  For example:
>> 
>> "Memories of hair rolling down her back
>> he sank as if into a sea."
>> 
>> Too awkward.  The patching-up marks are too obvious.  How
>> about this?
>> 
>> Hair rolling down her back.
>> He sank as if into a sea.
>> 
>> --
>> Bill Evans / Box 1224 / Mariposa, CA 95338 / (209)742-4720
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>> 
>> I have the original, from 1983, nearby, so it might be interesting to see how I changed it for Usenet, by retyping it, 16 or 17 years ago.
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> Translation



aka more lies and misrepresentations from" Anonymous."

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