On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > #The word order is seriously flexible, esp. in poetry. > Actually, I think they can move around a lot in poetry. But that doesn't > say anything about prose, including conversation. I prithee, sir, speak for yourself. I hold that there are those who (unlike Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme [who learns he speaks in prose]) converse in poetry (or anyway in verse). Perhaps that's why the heroes in the Paarfiad take ages to express their points of view...