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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 2)

When Rome conquered greece it absorbed its culture, not the other way around. When elsewhere they romanised the conquered peoples, they became hellenised when they conquered Greece.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Dec 8th, 2006 at 06:38:12 PM EST
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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 2)

Patience, patience. American mass culture is like dandylion ... its spreads and grows quickly in a barren environment of monoculture lawns on poor soil, but start developing a more diverse polyculture and it gets swamped.

OTOH, that is switching from analogy to metaphor, so if I was a poet I should have done that in verse.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 08:55:18 AM EST
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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (none / 0)

In iambic pentameter, even.

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 09:06:34 AM EST
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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 2)

Well no, I'd ne'er complete the feet. So four, as cats prefer. Or three, I think, or those combined. Five lies beyond my reach.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 09:57:23 AM EST
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Re: American Pie (Fight?) (4.00 / 2)

Bravo!

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sat Dec 9th, 2006 at 11:12:41 AM EST
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