yeah but you forget that 100 years ago ireland was run by the colonial power that controlled the entire indian subcontinent with a couple of thousand civil servants, so presumably they have a fairly failsafe record of whoever was alive in 1915
the sogen kato story is one of my favourites and i am glad to be able to revisit it
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
^valid point
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
this essentially useless article about longevity in sardinia caused me to spend a couple of hours reading about the piratic slave traders of the barbary states
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/secret-long-happy-life-mountain-villages-sardinia
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:36 (nine years ago) link
we had a grim version of that story. I may relate
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
The inquiry also noted that many elderly Japanese citizens were dying in solitude. "Die alone and in two months all that is left is the stench, a rotting corpse and maggots," The Japan Times said in an editorial,[13]
― nakhchivan, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:48 (nine years ago) link
a grim version
please do
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/recluse-shared-bed-with-her-dead-sister-for-up-to-a-year-26016977.html
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
:(
A Rose for Emily
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
would not smell as sweet presumably
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Monday, 6 April 2015 22:22 (nine years ago) link
lol, guilty lol
― drash, Monday, 6 April 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
unreg, do you compose much creative writing
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2015 09:03 (nine years ago) link
I wrote a lot of poetry as a teenager (& would often recite sonnets at school coffee houses and submit stuff to literary magazines), but at this point in my life I consider myself unusually prolific if I can find the patience/confidence/motivation to complete three shortish poems a year. mostly I just fill .rtf files with disjointed poem/story ideas and promptly forget about them.
If you're asking if I produce any creative writing in the vein of my joeky/idle ilx posts, then my answer is, regrettably, no.
I might ask the same question of you, though. Your submissions to the poetry contest threads are uniformly excellent, but do you produce much poetry (and/or vacuum performance art) beyond that?
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 12 April 2015 19:53 (nine years ago) link
(one of my more memorable high school sonnets began with the line, "If each of my regrets was but a stone", so don't go thinking I was a child prodigy or smth)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Sunday, 12 April 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link
aww, that could go well, depends v much on line 2, maybe you could do an ex libris thing and suggest 5 different options
i too wrote loads of poetry (and dyson'd with death) in younger days but all my writing (poetry or otherwise) nowadays feeds into the novel i'm writing, currently 150,000 words deep & counting :/ thanks for the nice words!
i thought you might write based on your brilliant posting here - as much the wit and intelligence displayed as the prose style. 'after you brush' sequence ffs, comic novel on my desk in 5 months pls
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Sunday, 12 April 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
nah, I was a staunch classicist as a teenager (I despised free verse & once had a heated argument in English class about WCW's Red Wheelbarrow — 'I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish with this piece, but it definitely isn't a poem) so my sole concession to modernity in that particular sonnet was a nonce rhyme scheme. but I do like the idea of remixing/revising one's old high school poetry inna oulipo style.
fyi I would definitely read/buy a 150,000+-word imago novel! and if you feel bashful about sharing it with ilx, just post it piecemeal on the 'posts you had second thought about' thread and hardly anybody will catch on.
[I hereby assert my copyright over the 'after you brush' sequence and all derivative publications]
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
nonce rhyming scheme
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
this kind of nonce:http://www.unsplendid.com/noncedef_frames.htm
but uh apparently 'nonce' has a very interesting colloquial meaning in the UK that I wasn't aware of until just now :-/
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:14 (nine years ago) link
I enjoyed a fleeting meander on what such a scheme might entail tbf
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
lol
I was a classicist too tbh, balked at even the notion of blank verse, although I did come up with some fairly elaborate rhyme schemes. very formalist, very classic prog
now I'm less that, more screaming avant-garde mess with increasingly rare motes of substantive form, and all's the better. novel is like maybe two-thirds complete if that so it will be a while longer before I post the whole thing, IF I post the whole thing
unreg you have a wodehousean knack for the right detail & I feel there is genuine lit mileage in this
my next question is whether u r ilx buddies with ogmor because you both seem into the same type of roots folk & blues
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:41 (nine years ago) link
Ogmor is a good poster! but I can't remember ever having crossed paths with him on ilx, hmmmm
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
Happy birthday!
― the story of ilm: an ottyssey (wins), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
thanks!
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
happy birthday! :)
wd flense a piece of cake for you
http://www.tophatcakes.co.uk/media/art/bluewhale.jpg
― drash, Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:40 (eight years ago) link
awwww, thanks
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 11 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
one of the all-time best posters. Love yr threads. Happy b-day!
― bamcquern, Saturday, 11 July 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
delightful unregistered!
― The Bends by Radiohead (imago), Saturday, 11 July 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
are you getting a free slurpee today?
― sarahell, Saturday, 11 July 2015 22:37 (eight years ago) link
thx everyone! I live about 10 miles away from the nearest 7-Eleven & I didn't pass any while driving today, so no slurpee this year.
(I'm still slightly bitter @ 7-Eleven because I used to think Slurpee Day was limited to customers born on July 11, but it turns out any pleb with a May 20 birthdate can get a free one as long as they show up on the right day. I don't really need 7-Eleven to reaffirm my special-snowflakeness, but it would be a nice gesture)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Sunday, 12 July 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link