Comments on: Imitation and the Art of Flattery: the Cold War of the Imagination http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/imitation-and-the-art-of-flattery-the-cold-war-of-the-imagination/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:09:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: D.W. Sabin http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/imitation-and-the-art-of-flattery-the-cold-war-of-the-imagination/#comment-23295 D.W. Sabin Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:07:15 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7348#comment-23295 Thank you Willson, its a bit of a slog to attempt a glimpse of potential felicity by comparing the current scene to ideas a hundred and seventy years old or even 1600 years old but as long as somebody finds a little vein of interest...good. As to you Peters, my intent was to speak primarily to those who have not developed gills from extended periods in the methaneous environment of their arse...they are the lost causes of our protracted period of reverse evolution. But, as to the apostrophe and its discontents, we brought your comment before the board at the Commanist Party Bund Hall and after breaking a few chairs and tipping over the keg stand in the clutch, they have issued the following Official Reply: "The Brotherhood's of the Second Commatariet of the Third Degree Deppenapostraphs Enforcement Cadre's Hereby Wish to Extend a Clenched Fist Toward Certain Academic's In Rock Islands Intellectual Community And Respectfully Caution...." At that juncture, a fist fight erupted over the use of remaining shared chairs and it was determined that the issue under consideration would best be tabled in favor of the setting of a new tap and that perhaps a committee might be formed to further assess what action might be taken. Still, if you see anyone with an unkempt beard , notes springing out of every pocket and carrying a Belgian Model Umbrella in Full Sunlight as you walk down the fair streets of your horizontal burg, I'd recommend you cross the street and keep an eye on that hollow tip in the umbrella. Thank you Willson, its a bit of a slog to attempt a glimpse of potential felicity by comparing the current scene to ideas a hundred and seventy years old or even 1600 years old but as long as somebody finds a little vein of interest…good.

As to you Peters, my intent was to speak primarily to those who have not developed gills from extended periods in the methaneous environment of their arse…they are the lost causes of our protracted period of reverse evolution. But, as to the apostrophe and its discontents, we brought your comment before the board at the Commanist Party Bund Hall and after breaking a few chairs and tipping over the keg stand in the clutch, they have issued the following Official Reply:

“The Brotherhood’s of the Second Commatariet of the Third Degree Deppenapostraphs Enforcement Cadre’s Hereby Wish to Extend a Clenched Fist Toward Certain Academic’s In Rock Islands Intellectual Community And Respectfully Caution….”

At that juncture, a fist fight erupted over the use of remaining shared chairs and it was determined that the issue under consideration would best be tabled in favor of the setting of a new tap and that perhaps a committee might be formed to further assess what action might be taken. Still, if you see anyone with an unkempt beard , notes springing out of every pocket and carrying a Belgian Model Umbrella in Full Sunlight as you walk down the fair streets of your horizontal burg, I’d recommend you cross the street and keep an eye on that hollow tip in the umbrella.

]]> By: Jason Peters http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/imitation-and-the-art-of-flattery-the-cold-war-of-the-imagination/#comment-23241 Jason Peters Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:20:54 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7348#comment-23241 Don't you think it best, Sabin, to tell America to bear down and pinch its head out before you tell it to breathe? Ah, but there is something about apostrophe, that device that so elevates and so ennobles. Don’t you think it best, Sabin, to tell America to bear down and pinch its head out before you tell it to breathe?

Ah, but there is something about apostrophe, that device that so elevates and so ennobles.

]]> By: John Willson http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2009/12/imitation-and-the-art-of-flattery-the-cold-war-of-the-imagination/#comment-23210 John Willson Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:47:41 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=7348#comment-23210 D.W., that second to the last paragraph is worth all the gold that was in California in 1848. Or, as a priest once said at a friend's wedding, the littlest son of a family trying to say what was lovely and thus worth loving, said, "I love you more than all the steps up the lighthouse!" The Russian stuff is heartbreaking, as is south Chicago politics and culture, but you have (excuse my football talk) made a play with the end of this piece. Thank you, although we are not supposed to say it. John D.W., that second to the last paragraph is worth all the gold that was in California in 1848. Or, as a priest once said at a friend’s wedding, the littlest son of a family trying to say what was lovely and thus worth loving, said, “I love you more than all the steps up the lighthouse!” The Russian stuff is heartbreaking, as is south Chicago politics and culture, but you have (excuse my football talk) made a play with the end of this piece. Thank you, although we are not supposed to say it.
John

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