It's a dream when you seem to be walking into the sun

[sovay]

Today has heavily featured my physical health being terrible, but I am cheered by the ongoing attempts of my spam e-mail to become James Joyce:

For a drink sovereign avuncular to be benedictus, step by step silk. Very chaste this everywhere contortionist. In front of licentiate, interment. What clerical topping may upholsterer at work aboard. Off directorate may I the northwester subdue? What morality persimmon by car anarchist were quartered. Away begonia out. How old head.

Needs more verbs to be Dylan Thomas. I also like this interview with John Kander about Cabaret.

Comments

[yhlee]

Whoaaaaaa.

*support support*

[sovay]

Whoaaaaaa.

I can't believe the contortionist line isn't Joyce.

*hugs*

[gwynnega]

What morality persimmon, indeed. (Though I think my favorite line is "Very chaste this everywhere contortionist.")

[sovay]

(Though I think my favorite line is "Very chaste this everywhere contortionist.")

It's mine, too. I can't figure out what to steal it for.

[asakiyume]

We all have questions about the mortality persimmon.

[ethelmay]

I keep thinking it should be pomegranate, though that doesn't flow as well.

[asakiyume]

It's because you're expecting pomegranate that persimmon is extra piquant!

[sovay]

We all have questions about the mortality persimmon.

Ask not for whom the mortality tuba blaats!

[asakiyume]

A mortality tuba is MUCH more resonant than a mortality persimmon (though less tasty). God bless you, Wondermark!

[asakiyume]

Ask not what mortality persimmon by car anarchist were quertered--he by car anarchist were quartered for you! How old head, indeed. Out with the old head, in with the new! If you **do** the northwester subdue, your health may improve, but only a clarical topping would be so contortionist as to suggest this to someone in your physical state.

I want a story with all these things, but especially the mortality persimmon.

[sovay]

Out with the old head, in with the new!

I like that.

I want a story with all these things, but especially the mortality persimmon.

I think you just wrote it!

[asakiyume]

With a little help from your spammer--but/and I want more! In some elsewhere realm, an impudent entry-level faerie bureaucrat is being punished by being forced to take charge of the direct mail to mortals, and they are entertaining themselves mightily in the process--and tantalizing their recipients (you) and those you share their missives with (us).

[sovay]

In some elsewhere realm, an impudent entry-level faerie bureaucrat is being punished by being forced to take charge of the direct mail to mortals, and they are entertaining themselves mightily in the process--and tantalizing their recipients (you) and those you share their missives with (us).

Like underworld radio!

[asakiyume]

indubitably!

[vass]

That's very poetic. Well done that spammer!

[sovay]

That's very poetic. Well done that spammer!

It improved my day! That is not the usual function of spam e-mail!

[aurumcalendula]

*hugs*

That's very poetic spam!

[sovay]

That's very poetic spam!

I mean, the rest of the haul was all penis enlargement and so forth, but this was worth it.

*hugs*

[asakiyume]

The rest of the haul. I imagine you setting out in your old trawler, flinging out the nets, then reeling them in. "What's the catch look like?" "Mainly penis enlargements, but look at this Joycean!"

[moon_custafer]

Penis enlargements seem like they might show up in Joycean works, honestly.

[asakiyume]

True fact!

[minoanmiss]

*snork*

[pameladean]

That's a fabulous interview. I was obsessed with the movie version when it came out, but I did NOT know that Judi Dench played Sally Bowles when the show opened in London. How I would like to have been there, thumbing my nose at the reviewers.

I hope you feel more the thing soon. *hug*

P.

[sovay]

That's a fabulous interview.

"During try-outs in Boston, Prince decided that what had been a three-act show would become two acts. 'At which point, Fred Ebb, who was nothing if not dramatic, collapsed and said the show was ruined. It would never work now,' Kander remembers. 'In our hotel room, Fred was lying on the bed and Joel Grey . . . was lying on one side of him and I was on the other, holding his hands, saying it's not over, it's going to be fine.'"

I was obsessed with the movie version when it came out, but I did NOT know that Judi Dench played Sally Bowles when the show opened in London. How I would like to have been there, thumbing my nose at the reviewers.

Agreed. I've seen pictures of her, but never heard a cast recording. I bet she was spectacular.

I hope you feel more the thing soon.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[cmcmck]

If you feel you can work with it, feel no guilt in stealing the wonders for your own poetry!

[sovay]

If you feel you can work with it, feel no guilt in stealing the wonders for your own poetry!

Thank you!

[a_reasonable_man]

So a Dadaist poet has a day job writing spam email?

Reminds me of how I once saw a guy on a bus in Chicago wearing a sport jacket with these words on the back: "Celebrate Nature, Seek Perfection." I thought, "That's the best, most concise definition of New England Transcendentalism I've ever seen!" I approached him and asked where he got his jacket. He didn't speak English well, but he was able to communicate that the Chinese manufacturer had just put random words on his jacket. The power of random word generation!

I send good health vibes your way.

[sovay]

So a Dadaist poet has a day job writing spam email?

I like that theory much better than a Markov generator!

"Celebrate Nature, Seek Perfection." I thought, "That's the best, most concise definition of New England Transcendentalism I've ever seen!" I approached him and asked where he got his jacket. He didn't speak English well, but he was able to communicate that the Chinese manufacturer had just put random words on his jacket.

That's brilliant.

The power of random word generation!

Human apophenia does the rest!

I send good health vibes your way.

Thank you.