tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post6268074687939943383..comments2024-03-28T13:29:19.130-05:00Comments on Althouse: Something emailed to me exactly 1 year ago.Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger97125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-64984273311010152132014-10-03T01:28:23.565-05:002014-10-03T01:28:23.565-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66268763593991163912014-10-03T01:27:03.344-05:002014-10-03T01:27:03.344-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62013626111946336602014-08-29T12:35:55.476-05:002014-08-29T12:35:55.476-05:00"Exactly. That's why I asked, because I w..."Exactly. That's why I asked, because I wondered if it was just because I was around, regularly, and therefore was an <b>easy target</b>."<br /><br />My "target" was neither you nor your "reader_iam" pseudonym/persona. My "target" was "A". And though I'll admit it was lazy, it wasn't exactly <i>easy</i> for me to create such a sort of <i>textual sampling</i> parody. <br /><br />There was never an intent to hurt, or humiliate any real person. That includes you and the real person who invented the persona of "garage mahal". <br /><br />Because it has clearly troubled you, I sincerely regret that I appropriated your old pseudonym for my frivolous little project back in 2009 and you have my word that I will never do it again.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63331311835848648122014-08-29T06:07:18.816-05:002014-08-29T06:07:18.816-05:00I'm not sure whether you are saying you never ...I'm not sure whether you are saying you never perceived it as built on an existing text or not. It has all the earmarks of that, and some of the fun is reading it and realizing what text it is, even if you have to copy some key words and google. <br /><br />We didn't come out and say it because the fun is in figuring it out for yourself, which is true of many things here, the style of this blog, so I assume my readers are on a level and of a mind to experience writing like that. If you're not, why were you here so much in the first place?<br /><br />If you were really so perplexed, you could have asked!Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-62826973370933523662014-08-29T02:12:13.648-05:002014-08-29T02:12:13.648-05:00I think neither of you--both of whom are so suppos...I think neither of you--both of whom are so supposed to be so savvy about context!!!!--got what you were doing, in context, other than the specifics that benefited you two and your individual contexts in the process of intertwining them together. <br /><br />That benefit of doubt I continue to give to you (individually and both).<br /><br />--<br /><br />Even as I still call "bullshit" on:<br /><br />"I'm sorry you didn't experience the beauty and fun of this post"<br /><br />and<br /><br />that, from what I can tell, Meade just casually looked around the blog, one day, and while thinking of D.H. Lawrence and etc. and so on, decided to pick out of the air reader_iam as the thang to pin stuff to, daffs and all, as a stand-in for (assuming you're being honestly specific about it) Mrs. Bolton.<br /><br />Man o' day. God 'o mighty.<br /><br />Why didn't you just say so flat out, you know, half a decade 'n' so ago? rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-67697991817085519522014-08-29T01:48:19.894-05:002014-08-29T01:48:19.894-05:00Oh, bullshit, re:
Witness: "I'm sorry y...Oh, bullshit, re: <br /><br />Witness: "I'm sorry you didn't experience the beauty and fun of this post. "<br /><br />No, you're not sorry (about no matter what I experienced).<br /><br /><i>He used some familiar things from the blog, needed a female name for Mrs. Bolton, and thought of yours, because you'd been a regular presence among the commenters.</i><br /><br />Exactly. That's why I asked, because I wondered if it was just because I was around, regularly, and therefore was an easy target.<br /><br />Especially because of the hybrid nature of myself from the very start.<br /><br />Yeah, OK, I guess you just gave me an explanation, of sorts, enough. Man, a far, far better thing that I oughta have chosen to do than ever discovered, chosen, followed, haunted and bothered you and your place, Althouse.<br /><br />No way to go back, however; no way to change the past.<br /><br />That goes for all of us, everyone, by the way.<br /><br /><br /><br />rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-86641613142818218152014-08-29T01:47:41.386-05:002014-08-29T01:47:41.386-05:00......rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-90633509130268080122014-08-27T11:49:24.516-05:002014-08-27T11:49:24.516-05:00@rcommal
I think you're reading way to much i...@rcommal<br /><br />I think you're reading way to much into this. Meade took a passage from "Lady Chatterley's Lover" -- last paragraph of Chapter 7, beginning of Chapter 8 -- and made some substitutions. <br /><br />"Mrs Bolton also kept a cherishing eye on Connie, feeling she must extend to her her female and professional protection. She was always urging her ladyship to walk out, to drive to Uthwaite, to be in the air. For Connie had got into the habit of sitting still by the fire, pretending to read; or to sew feebly, and hardly going out at all. <br /><br />"It was a blowy day soon after Hilda had gone, that Mrs Bolton said: 'Now why don't you go for a walk through the wood, and look at the daffs behind the keeper's cottage? They're the prettiest sight you'd see in a day's march. And you could put some in your room; wild daffs are always so cheerful-looking, aren't they?' <br /><br />"Connie took it in good part, even daffs for daffodils. Wild daffodils! After all, one could not stew in one's own juice. The spring came back...' Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn.'"<br /><br />Lawrence, D. H. (2010-07-13). Lady Chatterley's Lover (The Unexpurgated Edition) (Kindle Locations 1801-1809). Wilder Publications. Kindle Edition. <br /><br />He used some familiar things from the blog, needed a female name for Mrs. Bolton, and thought of yours, because you'd been a regular presence among the commenters. <br /><br />I'm sorry you didn't experience the beauty and fun of this post. Ann Althousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-84565157651672426102014-08-27T03:15:30.209-05:002014-08-27T03:15:30.209-05:00To this day, I still cringe at this. It showed how...To this day, I still cringe at this. It showed how ridiculous I was, and how little I was thought of *as*--and yet, somehow, I'd earned being humiliated in a profoundly symbolic way in an iconic emblematic post. After all of these years, I have to accept that I'll never understand that. What I don't get is why?rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3166061482560224482011-12-11T02:29:48.450-06:002011-12-11T02:29:48.450-06:00: (: (rcommalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301180339680504471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49483543389051031382010-02-13T10:50:58.822-06:002010-02-13T10:50:58.822-06:00@amba: stamen, pistil -- both turgid, beckoning, ...@amba: stamen, pistil -- both turgid, beckoning, and begging to be with the bees<br /><br />@Omaha1: thanksMeadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-71790680924538114852010-02-13T07:11:15.613-06:002010-02-13T07:11:15.613-06:00and so our gentle reader is left to ponder whether...and so our gentle reader is left to ponder whether additional chapters of "Lady Althouse's Lover" were forthcoming.<br /><br />very cool, Meade.<br /><br />wv: "beging" beginning? begging? perhaps a bit of both...Omaha1https://www.blogger.com/profile/17906834802115018347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-63652430561547963442010-02-12T01:55:59.149-06:002010-02-12T01:55:59.149-06:00Hmmm. A gardener knows that that lonely pistil is ...Hmmm. A gardener knows that that lonely pistil is the <i>female</i> part.ambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12042450225428891273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-49233243068947962042010-02-11T16:08:14.810-06:002010-02-11T16:08:14.810-06:00Of course some of us always recognized the talents...Of course some of us always recognized the talents of <a href="http://trooperyork.blogspot.com/search/label/Garage%20Mahal" rel="nofollow"> the great Garage Mahal!</a>Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-39081674847315927602010-02-11T15:37:56.467-06:002010-02-11T15:37:56.467-06:00Of course they aren't going to jail because Ob...Of course they aren't going to jail because Obama and ACLU are going to get them off but what can you do.<br /><br />At least garage got his tag!Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-12546945680990986832010-02-11T15:37:08.691-06:002010-02-11T15:37:08.691-06:00Congratulations to garage mahal.
Now we know tha...Congratulations to garage mahal. <br /><br />Now we know that the terrorists did not win since he got his tag.Trooper Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978703998566102194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-33696788348597032852010-02-11T09:15:59.570-06:002010-02-11T09:15:59.570-06:00Joan: Exactly right.
Peano said...
If they ever ...Joan: Exactly right.<br /><br />Peano said...<br /><i>If they ever read that in a court of law, you'll get 10 years.</i><br /><br />More like 20, I hope. In fact, I'm hoping that if I can demonstrate good behavior, after 20, I can throw myself on the mercy of the court and get another 10. Wish me luck.Meadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00117933390338651739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-78699853035069288522010-02-11T09:04:50.609-06:002010-02-11T09:04:50.609-06:00You should be! I may have made a play for Althouse...<i>You should be! I may have made a play for Althouse before you had your chance!</i><br /><br />Palladian, I'm sure that's what Meade meant. It was my thought, also.Joanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06093453920666892035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-19931542050330181152010-02-11T08:46:32.287-06:002010-02-11T08:46:32.287-06:00I for one am proud to be part hillbilly!I for one am proud to be part hillbilly!chickelithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10773887469972534979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-40109552303477091082010-02-11T01:56:29.751-06:002010-02-11T01:56:29.751-06:00"I'm glad you're homosexual too, Pall..."I'm glad you're homosexual too, Palladian."<br /><br />For a second there, I thought Meade was "coming out".Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094488084214911115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-69985829436554008832010-02-11T00:21:24.109-06:002010-02-11T00:21:24.109-06:00Meade's good, no doubt, but the award for the ...Meade's good, no doubt, but the award for the gardener who got the most mileage out of a gardening metaphors goes to the guy in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_There" rel="nofollow">this movie</a>.Peter Hohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06916196998855947137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-34777891297338450202010-02-11T00:17:18.938-06:002010-02-11T00:17:18.938-06:00Ralph, for some of us Althouse Hillbillies, Daffod...Ralph, for some of us Althouse Hillbillies, Daffodils and Wordsworth go together like grits and scrapple.Peter Hohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06916196998855947137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-75534570653470466842010-02-10T23:12:02.052-06:002010-02-10T23:12:02.052-06:00That's Wordsworth, for you Althouse hillbillie...That's Wordsworth, for you Althouse hillbillies.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-48223706475389733852010-02-10T22:57:10.849-06:002010-02-10T22:57:10.849-06:00I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o...I wandered lonely as a cloud<br />That floats on high o'er vales and hills,<br />When all at once I saw a crowd,<br />A host of golden daffodils;<br />Beside the lake, beneath the trees,<br />Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.<br /><br />Continuous as the stars that shine<br />and twinkle on the Milky Way,<br />They stretched in never-ending line<br />along the margin of a bay:<br />Ten thousand saw I at a glance,<br />tossing their heads in sprightly dance.<br /><br />The waves beside them danced; but they<br />Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:<br />A poet could not but be gay,<br />in such a jocund company:<br />I gazed - and gazed - but little thought<br />what wealth the show to me had brought:<br /><br />For oft, when on my couch I lie<br />In vacant or in pensive mood,<br />They flash upon that inward eye<br />Which is the bliss of solitude;<br />And then my heart with pleasure fills,<br />And dances with the daffodils.Ralph Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915708905660273961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-38540785290775879582010-02-10T21:40:03.490-06:002010-02-10T21:40:03.490-06:00Pads, your written word and witt has me soo stoked...Pads, your written word and witt has me soo stoked. Love me Pads, love you Pads. Pad, give me to what I need now. My rather large pad.<br /><br />PADS.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03840938119961976868noreply@blogger.com