J. H. Prynne

[Benny Bunter]

I guess I need a better dictionary

 

[woops]

i remember from chemistry lessons that if you fill a jar to the brim with water, the water will rise a tiny amount above the rim of the jar and that's called the meniscus. never heard that anatomical use before.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well that's definitely a lot closer to what I originally thought it was

 

[luka]

It's that too. Some words have more than one meaning.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Well yeah, obviously, I just took the first meaning I found from Google. I didn't spend any more than 10 seconds looking into it.

 

[luka]

Search results for query: Meniscus

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'm gonna try and casually slip it into the next intellectual IRL conversation I have.

 

[luka]

'Did you see them, the ducks coming into land, ruffling the meniscus?"
"Sorry Benny what?"

 

[Benny Bunter]

I was thinking something more like, "come on, top it up mate, I wanna see the miniscus on it" 🍺

 

[Benny Bunter]

That post might have worked better with a foul Spanish brandy emoji if there was such a thing

 

[Benny Bunter]

Would you say that Olson's projective verse essay would be a good way of thinking about/reading Prynne's stuff? The poem as a 'field' with its own internal logic and all that stuff?

 

[luka]

If only

 

[luka]

Would you say that Olson's projective verse essay would be a good way of thinking about/reading Prynne's stuff? The poem as a 'field' with its own internal logic and all that stuff?

It won't hurt

 

[luka]

Hard to say how helpful thinking is.

 

[haji]

http://theshakespeareblog.com/2012/07/john-taylor-the-water-poet/ i like his style

On 25 July 1622 he undertook an impressive publicity stunt, attempting to row down the Thames from London to the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, a distance of forty miles, in a boat made of paper. For oars he used two fish tied to canes

 

[haji]

I was thinking something more like, "come on, top it up mate, I wanna see the miniscus on it" 🍺

surface tension

 

[haji]

http://theshakespeareblog.com/2012/07/john-taylor-the-water-poet/ i like his style

can we somehow replicate this feat?

 

[haji]

water poet now sadly shut down and will be a luxury flat soon i think

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/13/so-long-the-water-poet/

 

[woops]

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/03/13/so-long-the-water-poet/

one of the nicest pubs in that part of town

 

[luka]

Luckily we're all teetotal now or we might miss it