Comments on: Stephen Fry Purchases Ezra Pound’s Pickled Testicles http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182 The News With Added Backbone Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:28:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Oscar Wilde Buys Ezra Pound’s Balls « http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-53508 Oscar Wilde Buys Ezra Pound’s Balls « Thu, 15 May 2008 02:17:47 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-53508 [...] http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182 [...] […] http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182 […]

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]]> By: Elberry http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26808 Elberry Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:43:43 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26808 Actually, i'm not sure you aren't Fry, or Lord Melchett as he's known in my circles. Isn't there a great moment in Blackadder 3 where he plays Wellington and casually backhands Hugh Laurie across the face? There's something deeply satisfying in watching eloquent (perhaps over-eloquent) men suddenly explode into physical violence. Actually, i’m not sure you aren’t Fry, or Lord Melchett as he’s known in my circles. Isn’t there a great moment in Blackadder 3 where he plays Wellington and casually backhands Hugh Laurie across the face? There’s something deeply satisfying in watching eloquent (perhaps over-eloquent) men suddenly explode into physical violence.

]]> By: David http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26806 David Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:32:05 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26806 'Cruel', Elberry? You should know that I'm silly, playful, obscure, sometimes slightly deranged, but never cruel unless it's Jordan, Gordon Brown, James Blunt or Jamie Oliver. Except for the odd Iranian madman whose name I'm not about to spell, I think I'm quite gentle with everybody else. ‘Cruel’, Elberry? You should know that I’m silly, playful, obscure, sometimes slightly deranged, but never cruel unless it’s Jordan, Gordon Brown, James Blunt or Jamie Oliver. Except for the odd Iranian madman whose name I’m not about to spell, I think I’m quite gentle with everybody else.

]]> By: Elberry http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26802 Elberry Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:17:58 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26802 i thought you were just being cruel till i followed the link and read some of Fry's blog. i thought you were just being cruel till i followed the link and read some of Fry’s blog.

]]> By: David http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26766 David Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:23:18 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26766 Hector, I believe the size of the testicles are the only clear indicator of poetic worth. Wallace Stevens was blessed by handsomely sized orbs, as was Shelley. Too much modern poetry, riddled with free verse and lacking metre, is excused because of small sized equipment. You must remember the words of Mr. Pope, who commented on the subject in his 'Epistle to Burlington' with these lines: Still follow Sense, of ev’ry Art the Soul, Parts answ’ring parts slide into a whole, And from ye Great Gonads the Word imparts A sense of Decorum akin to Art. Hector, I believe the size of the testicles are the only clear indicator of poetic worth. Wallace Stevens was blessed by handsomely sized orbs, as was Shelley. Too much modern poetry, riddled with free verse and lacking metre, is excused because of small sized equipment. You must remember the words of Mr. Pope, who commented on the subject in his ‘Epistle to Burlington’ with these lines:

Still follow Sense, of ev’ry Art the Soul,
Parts answ’ring parts slide into a whole,
And from ye Great Gonads the Word imparts
A sense of Decorum akin to Art.

]]> By: Hector Pascal http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26756 Hector Pascal Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:31:29 +0000 http://www.the-spine.com/archives/1182#comment-26756 As the Blessed Ezra Pound may have been a secret homosexualist as well as noted litterateur, perhaps Mr. Fry can be prevailed upon to expand upon the correlation between the breath-takingly immense size of these gonads, Pound's putative proclivities and the coveted effect of both on Fry's own ouevre. I take it the purchase is tax deductible as a professional expense? As the Blessed Ezra Pound may have been a secret homosexualist as well as noted litterateur, perhaps Mr. Fry can be prevailed upon to expand upon the correlation between the breath-takingly immense size of these gonads, Pound’s putative proclivities and the coveted effect of both on Fry’s own ouevre. I take it the purchase is tax deductible as a professional expense?

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