tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post4252360112406241907..comments2023-07-04T22:09:51.208+08:00Comments on Tropic Temper: Poetry in SF notion...Glenda Larkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10113271268122909969noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-90752560168560091202008-07-19T10:01:00.000+08:002008-07-19T10:01:00.000+08:00Thanks for an excellent explanation Glenda. Plus a...Thanks for an excellent explanation Glenda. Plus a verse. I don't know PofP very well, but that song I know. The only operetta I really, really know is the Mikado and I only saw it for the first time last year, but I practically knew the libretto backwards once upon a time.I have seen some of the others but so long ago I don't remember what they were.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-65326211609610178752008-07-19T07:07:00.000+08:002008-07-19T07:07:00.000+08:00Gynie, the poem has used the rythym and rhyming pa...Gynie, the poem has used the rythym and rhyming patterns of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta song about the model Major-General. It is from the Pirates of Penzance.<BR/><BR/>I am the very model of a modern Major-General,<BR/>I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,<BR/>I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,<BR/>From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;<BR/>I 'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,<BR/>I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,<BR/>About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news <BR/>With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.glenda larkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568199985482116193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-25330784986406900852008-07-19T06:01:00.000+08:002008-07-19T06:01:00.000+08:00it was so cool to read , even for me,i could figur...it was so cool to read , even for me,i could figure some goblin walking and noding and ready to prepare some tricks... i've seen his books in france i believe i might take a look at it next time, from closer...<BR/><BR/>i can imagine my boyfriend already telling me :'no more books, no more flowers, we don't have any place anymore'<BR/><BR/>what do you mean jo about 'major general' ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-47645001028994880012008-07-18T20:04:00.000+08:002008-07-18T20:04:00.000+08:00I loved that - very clever I though. I shall now b...I loved that - very clever I though. I shall now be singing Modern Major General to myself for the rest of the day.Johttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087140585742801854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-63740068884175958852008-07-18T16:30:00.000+08:002008-07-18T16:30:00.000+08:00Makes my rejection list look silly. Mine can't be ...Makes my rejection list look silly. Mine can't be more than 50 or so. :0glenda larkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16568199985482116193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22066416.post-91941326773856182992008-07-18T15:35:00.000+08:002008-07-18T15:35:00.000+08:00Silly man, heh. I see among the bullet points on ...Silly man, heh. I see among the bullet points on his website biog. page he includes: <I>Rejections collected since 1995: 500+</I>hrugaarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08621922879300266376noreply@blogger.com