Your poetry is broken, please fix it
Mar. 12th, 2003 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4A bug appeared in our tracking database the other day:
Title: Poem text is jumbled.
Description: Peter Reading's "And Now, a Quick Look at the Morning Papers".
Here's the full text of the (actually rather good) poem in question:
1 lled in
2 ar smas
3 e freed b
4 iremen from the wreckage of his Ren
5 fter both had been in collision wit
6 hrysler Avenger. The A49 was blocke
7 en to cut both drivers from their v
8 dition of the other driver as 'sati
9 rsday---the day after his fiftiet
10 or alcohol proved positive, a p
11 juries to his head and left l
12 mproving' said a hospital o
13 lso certified dead was Do
14 eaves a wife and two chi
15 aid 'He just drove ou
16 othing I could do.'
17 Parochial Church
18 early retire
19 any year
20 fini
21 ha
I spent the next 10 minutes alternating between re-reading the poem and trying to think of a tactful way of saying "It's meant to look like that, you philistine."
Future bugs expected include "Poem entitled 'Sonnet' has extra line"; "'Four Quartets' is missing 8 violins, 4 violas and 4 cellos" ...
Amused me, anyway, so I thought I'd post something amusing to counterbalance the previous miserable entry. Although, of course, the "amusing" post contains a more serious poem... does the comedy frame the tragedy, or vice versa? Half empty. Half full. Half past six, and time to go home.
Title: Poem text is jumbled.
Description: Peter Reading's "And Now, a Quick Look at the Morning Papers".
Here's the full text of the (actually rather good) poem in question:
1 lled in
2 ar smas
3 e freed b
4 iremen from the wreckage of his Ren
5 fter both had been in collision wit
6 hrysler Avenger. The A49 was blocke
7 en to cut both drivers from their v
8 dition of the other driver as 'sati
9 rsday---the day after his fiftiet
10 or alcohol proved positive, a p
11 juries to his head and left l
12 mproving' said a hospital o
13 lso certified dead was Do
14 eaves a wife and two chi
15 aid 'He just drove ou
16 othing I could do.'
17 Parochial Church
18 early retire
19 any year
20 fini
21 ha
I spent the next 10 minutes alternating between re-reading the poem and trying to think of a tactful way of saying "It's meant to look like that, you philistine."
Future bugs expected include "Poem entitled 'Sonnet' has extra line"; "'Four Quartets' is missing 8 violins, 4 violas and 4 cellos" ...
Amused me, anyway, so I thought I'd post something amusing to counterbalance the previous miserable entry. Although, of course, the "amusing" post contains a more serious poem... does the comedy frame the tragedy, or vice versa? Half empty. Half full. Half past six, and time to go home.
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Date: 2003-03-12 11:35 am (UTC)Does the comedy frame the tragedy, or vice versa? Half empty. Half full.
Half-dressed ? Half-naked ? As with the more commonly expressed question concerning angels and pins, it depends on the tune.
"What is life but an improvisation to the music ?"
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Date: 2003-03-13 02:33 am (UTC)Ooh, if you insist. ... No, wait.
As with the more commonly expressed question concerning angels and pins, it depends on the tune.
"What is life but an improvisation to the music ?"
"Sometimes in life you've got to dance like nobody's watching."
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Date: 2003-03-13 08:24 am (UTC)Ooh, if you insist. ... No, wait.
Insisting isn't me, but I can certainly encourage. Particularly in the cause of backrubs.
As with the more commonly expressed question concerning angels and pins, it depends on the tune.
"...you might just as well ask how many demons can dance on the head of a pin. They're of the same original stock, after all. And at least they dance. [Footnote: Although it's not what you and I would call dancing. Not good dancing anyway. A demon moves like a white band on "Soul Train."]"
--Pratchett/Gaiman, Good Omens
See A Quantum Gravity Treatment of the Angel Density Problem (http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume7/v7i3/angels-7-3.htm), I think.