On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >> >> >For comparison, check out this recent poem, which has two "stunt" >> >features, but ones which are intended to support the content: >> >http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~philiph/bagel.htm >A poem about a bagel with more than 50 ingredients is imho a stunt. But it does not read (to me) as though all of those ingredients are on the bagel at the same time. There *is* the word "or" in there, suggesting rather a plethora of possibilities, 50 different *ways* to eat that bagel. Or perhaps a smörgåsbord, where all of the ingredients are laid out, and sundry combinations can be tried. And a poem about all of them is apparantly the work of an hungry hedonist, rather than necessarily a stunt. But what do I know? >> Even thought I have eaten a filling supper, I find that reading it >> makes me hungry all over again. Bother. Memo to self: pick up >> dozen freshly baked bagels. > >Have your baker send me a commission. Perhaps the 13th from the >baker's dozen. > Well, and I am indeed tempted to do just that.