Re: CHAT: IDLE CHAT: Re: Spoilers for Verimak and Zeyli

>I've always liked Laurie Anderson's little word collage, where
>she replaces the final couplet with another famous reference
>to disaster at sea...
>
>            Full fathom five they father lies:
>            Of his bones are coral made;
>            Those are pearls that were his eyes;
>            Nothing of him doth fade
>            But doth suffer a sea change
>            Into something rich and strange...
>            And I alone am left to tell the tale.
>            Call me Ishmael.
>
>Would it be sacrilege to say that I like that ending couplet
>better than Shakespeare's?
I have a somewhat similar experience. Cerainly, whenever I read or think
the words to this I hear Laurie Anderson's distinctive voice and
inflections in my head. I too like the collage, perhaps because it lacks
the disjunction I always feel in style between the ding dong, and the "high
seriousness" of the beginning. I think that the original is intended to
show the airy nature of the spirit. So it works in the play, but not for me
so much as a  poem.

  -- David
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