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[zwol]

All day long my language centers have been tied up with doggerel. I haven't any idea where it came from, and it's not even true to the original conception of the named subjects.

Jellicles VERB 1
CONNECTIVE Jellicles VERB 2
OPTIONAL CONJUNCTION The proof of the pudding is FOUR-BEAT PREDICATE.

The FOUR-BEAT PREDICATE rhymes with VERB 2. Example:

Jellicles act
As Jellicles must
The proof of the pudding is under the crust.

There seems to be an unlimited supply of these things.

Jellicles watch
And Jellicles wait
The proof of the pudding is all down to fate.

They prevent me from thinking about much else.

Jellicles plot
And Jellicles plan
But the proof of the pudding is out of their hands.

I'm hoping this post will exorcise them.

Jellicles work
As Jellicles do
The proof of the pudding is now up to you.

I really do have better things to do.

Jellicles see
What Jellicles will
The proof of the pudding is hardly a thrill.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

The first two lines at least fit the pattern of Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, instead of the original Eliot. As does the third line, if you include the conjunction, though without it it's missing a beat.

I have no idea where the pudding comes from, though.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Webber's version is probably the cause of the first two lines, now I look at it.

I got no idea about the pudding either.

[weinberg.wordpress.com (from livejournal.com)]

This is the best thing ever. As you know, I too frequently get hung up on rhythms, patterns, all of this - I think Dad does too - remember when he made that whole list of "namby pamby, fiddle faddle," etc.?

My obsession for the past week, which will perhaps un-obsess you from this language game, has been this interchange:

Dara (eating a donut, in car with other people): Mmmmm. Sugar.
Jason: You don't have to call me Sugar. Jason's fine.

If I could write an entire play made of things like that, I'd be happy. What are those things?

I also recommend reading, or rereading, John Donne's SONG, "Go, and catch a falling star": http://www.online-literature.com/donne/339/: you have to actually read it out loud for it to work, but once you have read it, you will find that whatever else is stuck in your head is out, and that the Song is.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

Your calling this the best thing ever makes me feel a lot better about having been obsessing over it all day. :) I don't remember that list you say Dad made, though.

The Sugar/Jason thing is definitely an example of something, but durned if I can think of a name for it myself.

The John Donne helps, although I confess I can't read that poem without thinking of HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (the book, not the movie)... and the third verse makes me cringe; dude, bitter much?

[zwol.livejournal.com]

... and then I read that as far as anyone knows, he and his wife were utterly devoted to one another. WTF.

[shweta-narayan.livejournal.com]

You, sir, are one strange kitty.

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

That's hypnotic.

[zwol.livejournal.com]

I win.