The Off Topic Topic

[Savonarola]

Ezra Pound said something like Walt Whitman had only 30 good pages of poetry in "Leaves of Grass," but when he went back to look he couldn't find them.  I can't say that view is without merit; but I do think number 21 of "Song of Myself" would be one of those pages:

21

I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are
with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into a new tongue.

I am the poet of the woman the same as the man,
And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man,
And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of men.

I chant the chant of dilation or pride,
We have had ducking and deprecating about enough,
I show that size is only development.

Have you outstript the rest? are you the President?
It is a trifle, they will more than arrive there every one, and still
pass on.

I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.


Press close bare-bosom'd night—press close magnetic nourishing
night!
Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.

Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth!
Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
Earth of departed sunset—earth of the mountains misty-topt!
Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my
sake!
Far-swooping elbow'd earth—rich apple-blossom'd earth!
Smile, for your lover comes.

Prodigal, you have given me love—therefore I to you give love!
O unspeakable passionate love.

I had been thinking about the lines about having outstript the rest in regards to Trump; but on re-reading a see Walt covers a lot of ground here. 

[Razgovory]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive. 

[Jacob]

Hoping for the best, Raz.

[merithyn]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive.

Oh dear! What happened to him, Raz?? I hope he ends up coming out of it.

[The Brain]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive.

[dps]

Penn State.
I know they do American football there and the university has its own private town in the middle of nowhere.
How is it academically?

I've a friend starting there in my field and I'm curious.

I believe Trump went there.

No, he went to Penn, not Penn state.

[Eddie Teach]

By my count, that makes Reagan the last non-ivy President.

[mongers]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive.

Wishing him a good convalescence, Raz.

[Razgovory]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive.

Oh dear! What happened to him, Raz?? I hope he ends up coming out of it.

He's diabetic and he nearly drank himself to death.  It's more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it.

[merithyn]

Hey, my dad finally woke up.  He's been in a medically induced coma for nearly 4 weeks now and it was questionable if he would come out.  He's still pretty ill and he lost his foot, but he may very well survive.

Oh dear! What happened to him, Raz?? I hope he ends up coming out of it.

He's diabetic and he nearly drank himself to death.  It's more complicated than that, but that's the gist of it.

Yeah... I know that story all too well.  Hang in there.

[Ed Anger]

This week has been fun plane watching at Wright Patterson. Early in the week, a Russian Open Skies plane played a visit and today I saw a AF command plane (E-4) parked way away from gate 26A.

[CountDeMoney]

This week has been fun plane watching at Wright Patterson. Early in the week, a Russian Open Skies plane played a visit and today I saw a AF command plane (E-4) parked way away from gate 26A.

Yeah, saw you guys got trolled by a TupoLOLv Tu-154 this week 

[Ed Anger]

This week has been fun plane watching at Wright Patterson. Early in the week, a Russian Open Skies plane played a visit and today I saw a AF command plane (E-4) parked way away from gate 26A.

Yeah, saw you guys got trolled by a TupoLOLv Tu-154 this week 

The last time they visited years ago, they went off base to eat out. I don't think they went off base this time. CAFETERIA FOOD FOR YOU

[Tonitrus]

This week has been fun plane watching at Wright Patterson. Early in the week, a Russian Open Skies plane played a visit and today I saw a AF command plane (E-4) parked way away from gate 26A.

Yeah, saw you guys got trolled by a TupoLOLv Tu-154 this week 

The last time they visited years ago, they went off base to eat out. I don't think they went off base this time. CAFETERIA FOOD FOR YOU

Dining Facility. 

Or, at least, just about every AF base has a Burger King. 

[Zanza]

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