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Date Posted: 13:34:33 01/16/04 Fri
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB07a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.169
Subject: Re: Affectation
In reply to: Ashley Owen Smith 's message, "Affectation" on 05:43:41 12/06/03 Sat

Interesting. The repeated use of rhetorical questions engages the reader. The single endline is quite effective, even shocking, when related to the first stanza. Also opening the first stanza with 'Because..' makes the reader wonder what has gone before or what has inspired such a torrent. Food for thought indeed.

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Because by only a small stretch of the imagination
>we can be called gods.
>
>Unless one�s idea of godliness includes
>one spiriting away another with the force of one�s
>will:
>what, then, is competition for?
>
>We feel naughty, should we indulge such a fantastic
>thought,
>like a small boy masturbating beneath his blanket,
>frightened when the seed spurts pearlescent and warm:
>what, then, are epiphanies for?
>
>We exacerbate ourselves to the utmost limit
>of our perception, and then some; deigning to oblige
>another with our presence when we�re needed, startling
>the tongue,
>as if by will, lifting it beneath an impossibly heavy
>stone of boredom:
>what, then, is communication for? (Only a means to
>inform, encourage, and damn
>one another.)
>
>And we are our own blasphemy.
>
>
>
>AOS

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