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Scorn not the printed word, O thoughtful soul, As Wordsworth 1 did not say, and do not set An electric machine to grind through files In search of gobbets all thinky and stuff For Shakespeare set in iambs clean and neat All the transcendent ideas of the good, The beautiful, and the eternal true Sustained in meters of steel and words of gold Shakespeare never                wobbled                                                 all over the paper in unmetered ******* lines of disconnected babble about stars and selves 2 without any citations for verification                                        stirred around in a sort of it-sounds-like-Shakespeare-kinda-sorta-they-won’t-care-anyway soup to be copied and pasted onto sheets of 8 1/2” by 11” fake parchment woodpulp because, like, y’know, that’s what you do for graduation ceremonies 1 Wordsworth, “Scorn not the Sonnet” 2 Possibly a misremembering of Cassius' words to Brutus in Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”  If so, the quotation has been, like Caesar, assassinated.
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Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 12:10 PM UTC
Upon Reading a Graduation Program Which Features a Clumsily-Formed Sentiment Wrongly Attributed to Shakespeare
Scorn not the printed word, O thoughtful soul, As Wordsworth 1 did not say, and do not set An electric machine to grind through files In search of gobbets all thinky and stuff For Shakespeare set in iambs clean and neat All the transcendent ideas of the good, The beautiful, and the eternal true Sustained in meters of steel and words of gold Shakespeare never                wobbled                                                 all over the paper in unmetered ******* lines of disconnected babble about stars and selves 2 without any citations for verification                                        stirred around in a sort of it-sounds-like-Shakespeare-kinda-sorta-they-won’t-care-anyway soup to be copied and pasted onto sheets of 8 1/2” by 11” fake parchment woodpulp because, like, y’know, that’s what you do for graduation ceremonies 1 Wordsworth, “Scorn not the Sonnet” 2 Possibly a misremembering of Cassius' words to Brutus in Julius Caesar: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”  If so, the quotation has been, like Caesar, assassinated.
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lawrence-hall
Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 12:10 PM UTC
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