tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post9042866363917860340..comments2024-03-28T19:17:01.550+13:00Comments on The Imaginary Museum: Cats and/or VasesDr Jack Rosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-26161833188701713542013-07-03T02:01:20.632+12:002013-07-03T02:01:20.632+12:00"The cat sat on the mat eating a bat."
H..."The cat sat on the mat eating a bat."<br />Hmm. I can sense Dr. Seuss rolling over in his grave right now.<br /><br />"Vainglory".. I love this word, even better is "vainglorious".<br /><br />I use it every time I can which is a lot when describing many of modern days' egos.Maxhttp://meratolmax.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-35845702959537428472008-10-01T22:51:00.000+13:002008-10-01T22:51:00.000+13:00I could never get into Donne much but I love Grey'...I could never get into Donne much but I love Grey's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" I also know that poem about a cat by him...<BR/>Geoffrey Smart [I "ape" or echo him on part of my Blog with my "Baumgartner" chant]... wrote about his cat (real or imagined) - your Cat thing in Brief is good Jack and it fits well in EMO which is a mother of a work...hmm.."harder" than Giodorno or Imaginary Museum - but certainly very interesting (and sometimes disturbing) as are your main works I feel...<BR/><BR/> But you aren't selling out on Post Modernism with these cat poems - no? Derrida et al have their place (if anyone can actually understand anything he/they wrote!...) as much as cats... <BR/><BR/>My friend James '"Ant" "Drivel!"' Dolimore hates Postmodernism - he's all for real things and Richard Dawkins etc) - here is a line I once wrote about a cat:<BR/><BR/>"The cat sat on the mat eating a bat."Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10272507198753290435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-913572724762027312008-09-25T09:59:00.000+12:002008-09-25T09:59:00.000+12:00I guess it could be like Gray's 'Ode on the Death ...I guess it could be like Gray's 'Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes' - only maybe a bit less morbid.<BR/><BR/>Our cat does like to climb inside a wicker basket in the kitchen, and looks very cute staring out of the top, but I'm not sure that the world is quite ready to hear the extent of the indulgence extended by us to this particular incorrigible moggie.Dr Jack Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01805945600952222957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29676463.post-68218511555217954652008-09-25T09:34:00.000+12:002008-09-25T09:34:00.000+12:00A poem about a cat in a vase would seem the next l...A poem about a cat in a vase would seem the next logical step. Dare you accept the challenge?Tim Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14856414700019368658noreply@blogger.com