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Accuracy is much less important than alliteration.
Anybody can write “Hello me no hellos” or “How are you old chap me no how are you old chaps.”
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge informed us that we were nude, which, as knowledge goes, is pretty low down the list of amazing facts.
It’s rude to finish other people’s sentences, unless you killed them first.
Shall we begin with erotesis? That’s the sort of question that really isn’t a question at all. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” asked Shakespeare, and did not wait for a reply. Fun as it may be to imagine him sending the first line of that sonnet off to his beloved and, a couple of days later, getting the answer, “Go ahead,” I don’t think that’s what happened. The line could just as easily be: “I shall compare thee to a summer’s day.
The American way is (as outlined in their mutinous Declaration of Independence) made up of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The pursuit of happiness is, if you think about it, the least of the promises here. You can pursue happiness as much as you like, and most of us do anyway. It rarely ends in capture.
With that in mind, let us turn to the most sexist and beautiful lines ever written in English:
Personification is a strange woman.
All things are, of course, possible with Jesus, but having a large plank of wood in your eye and not noticing is an extreme example.
It’s a very odd poem by any measure. For starters, it’s in Free Verse, which wasn’t really meant to exist back then. For seconds, it’s utterly insane
