Re: A Fine Collection of Colemanballs

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On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:00:49 GMT, arnow@xxxxxxxxx (Murray Arnow)
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of the weather-map sans modesty.[1]

[1] Hi Daniel.

Oh, sure. Like in Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, right?

Ah, Lass! Who would of cold fronts sing and dance
Must rearward storms predict with wary glance
Lest, making heavy weather of her cable she
Must flee, sans dignity, sans pants.

And sans one iamb--probably reinforcing the feeling of dearth in the
last line.

NEW*
As you say. I didn't even notice, although I did have "sans face,
sans modesty" there at one point, and changed it. It still sounds all
right to me, though, maybe because the pauses preserve the timing.

There's a word I've been trying to remember for substituting a pause
for a syllable, or maybe for a foot, in a line, but it won't come to
mind. No, not dementia.

The only phrase I know for it is "metrical pause".
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*I'm not getting attribution marks all the time. Let's see how this
comes out.

I think you need to talk to Sprint.

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Jerry Friedman

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