On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > 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. Ok, I'm happy to be in Paul Simon territory. The "or"s are in there in part because too many "and"s become unbearable, and "or" sounds nicer. And because I use "xor" for "exclusive or". Uhh, no I don't. Re smörgåsbord (awesome to see that appear on my screen so nicely seasoned), I thought about putting lutkefish on the bagel but decided it would be a bit much for breakfast. Not to mention the meter and rhyme scheme. Ok, this is a vaguely Dragaeran post because of the food, but only vaguely.