[B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re: Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon)

frjsilver at optonline.net frjsilver at optonline.net
Wed Jul 25 19:38:38 EDT 2007


AAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh!  (Quoth Charlie Brown.)From the meter, I could feel that this was built on Poe's _The Raven_ even before I got to 'weak and weary'.It's hard for me to imagine KURIE rhyming with 'weary'.  Do people actually say such a thing?!And I'd like to think that all this work is blessed, not god-forsaken.But it was fun, anyway.Father James(playing poetry editor)----- Original Message -----From: Jonathan Robie Date: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 5:17 pmSubject: [B-Greek] What about Danker? (Re:  Thomas Hardy, Liddell and Scott On the Completion of their Lexicon)To: "Carl W. Conrad" Cc: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org> I think we need some poems for Frederick Danker ....> > Here's one possible start:> > Starting with the work of Bauer,> Arndt and Gingrich, hour by hour,> Thus did Frederick William Danker> Clarify, revise, update> Long he pondered, weak and weary,> Every phrase containing KURIE.> No man would have undertaken> Such a task, so god forsaken> Had he known ahead of time> Just how much was on his plate.> > Feel free to steal phrases from this to write a better and > funnier poem, > or start from scratch.> > Jonathan> ---> B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek> B-Greek mailing list> B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek> 



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