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John Dean

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Oct 29, 2011, 5:27:59 PM10/29/11
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I was reminded recently of Gregory Corso's poem 'Marriage'
Text here:
http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/Marriage.html

Terrific poem - I've loved it for near half a century. You may recollect it
starts

Should I get married? Should I be good?
Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood?

And I wondered, what exactly is a faustus hood? Is it a special kind of
clothing? Or just a mellifluous marriage of words like, later in the poem:

Christmas teeth! Radiant brains! Apple deaf! ?

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John Dean
Oxford


LFS

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Oct 29, 2011, 5:53:12 PM10/29/11
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Oh yes! Thanks for the reminder, it's full of good things. The picture
of Rimbaud on the lawnmower. And penguin dust. And a rubber Tacitus:
what could that be?

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Laura
(emulate St. George for email)




Horace LaBadie

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Oct 29, 2011, 6:09:42 PM10/29/11
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In article <9h39v7...@mid.individual.net>,
Pie Glue is "I do." So that should be a Scooby Doo.

Snidely

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Oct 29, 2011, 6:24:56 PM10/29/11
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"John Dean" <john...@fraglineone.net> scribbled something like ...
Is this message from a server regurgitating? I don't think we went on
about the apple deaf, but the faustus hood had our attention recently.

/dps

Jerry Friedman

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Oct 29, 2011, 9:39:45 PM10/29/11
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Free associating? Pacifiers are made of rubber and the name Tacitus
suggests silence?

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Jerry Friedman

Nick Spalding

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Oct 30, 2011, 5:57:05 AM10/30/11
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Snidely wrote, in <Xns9F8D9CCE6A...@88.198.244.100>
on Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:24:56 +0000 (UTC):
That was in Another Place, about a week ago.
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Nick Spalding
BrE/IrE

Donna Richoux

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Oct 30, 2011, 10:14:51 AM10/30/11
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There's a houseplant with rubbery leaves called Tacitus (in the sedum
family). It doesn't make much sense in the poem, but the poem is pretty
fanciful.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tacitus_bellus_1.jpg

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Best -- Donna Richoux

John Dean

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Oct 30, 2011, 1:29:57 PM10/30/11
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I take it to be an edition of Tacitus bound in rubber - to go with the
broken Bach records in the rattle. Where would we find broken records these
days?
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John Dean
Oxford


Snidely

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Oct 30, 2011, 3:32:31 PM10/30/11
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Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie> scribbled something like ...
> Snidely wrote, on Sat, 29 Oct
>
>> "John Dean" <john...@fraglineone.net> scribbled something like ...

>> > Or just a mellifluous marriage of words

>> Is this message from a server regurgitating? I don't think we went on
>> about the apple deaf, but the faustus hood had our attention recently.
>
> That was in Another Place, about a week ago.

Ah, so it was. I guess I should have remembered that it was one of John's
rare returns to that forum.

Okay, carry on!

/dps "maybe I'll get to reading the poem this time"
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