Is J. Alfred Prufrock insecure?

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Chris, If it is obvious to me, then it is obvious to everyone here that your educational credentials are woefully inadequate for the moderation of this board. I suggest you resign immediately and turn over the keys to one of the recently arrived eggheads.

Hurting, do you have your "show LoChris, If it is obvious to me, then it is obvious to everyone that your educational credentials are woefully inadequate for the moderation of this board. I suggest you resign immediately and turn over the keys to one of the recently arrived eggheads.

Hurting, do you have your "show Username" option checked?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link

When cut and paste goes wrong.

Anyway, just joshing, Chris.
Just kidding, Josh.

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 13 August 2005 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Nabisco hits the mark again.

― the bellefox, Monday, 15 August 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

oh please

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

ok he did nm

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 15 August 2005 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Love Song Remains The Same"

― David A. (Davant), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

"Casuistry" (now *there's* truth in product labelling) wrote:

"The poem seems pretty obsessed with 'mundane existance', and this
seems to be where many of the narrator's anxieties lie: There are ...oyster shells...standing water, soot-filled chimneys, make up, toast and tea, stairs to walk down...coats, neckties, and tie pins..."

What an amusing misrepresentation. It's as if a robot, asked to comment on the meaning of a play, reeled off a list of the props.

Casuistry: "[These things are] much more present in the poem than a few tossed off allusions to Dante."

Those things are the outer trappings, the background, like props in a play. The quote from Dante occupies a prominent place at the start of the poem precisely because it foreshadows the poem's content.

The rest of your comments are equally inane and I shall ignore them.

― Mark Adkins, Friday, 14 October 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It's as if a robot, asked to comment on the meaning of a play, reeled off a list of the props.
Gold star for robotboy!

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

...

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

You're right: The fact that Eliot fills his text up with mundane, human, realistic details is a clear indication that we are to dismiss those details as mere props and assume that Prufrock is some sort of metaphysical starbaby, living in some abstracted plane and wrestling with inner daemons daring him to actually manipulate the matter of the universe, to be involved with the real world once again.

Hm, I'm beginning to understand why this interpretation appeals to you!

Anyway, mostly I'm pleased that you took the time to elide my quote in a seemingly random but time-consuming fashion.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:52 (eighteen years ago) link

dude you've got the most hard-working troll in the world dude

― tom west (thomp), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, man. That's dedication.

― the pr00de abides (pr00de), Saturday, 15 October 2005 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link

'starbaby'!

http://www.videovista.net/articles/starman.jpg

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 15 October 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link

It's as though a very primitive computer spent the last two months analyzing the comments and trying to come up with a response.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 15 October 2005 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm afraid I can't accept that interpretation, Chris.

― Kal-El 9000 (Ken L), Saturday, 15 October 2005 07:27 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

(x-post) Nabisco, do you have access to Gold Bud peaches? Where do you live? I will BRING YOU ONE. In summer.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 15:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Can I have one too? I live just a few blocks from Nabisco.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I will bring two. I will carefully transport them in eiderdown-lined boxes, to whatever township. And you will dare to eat them!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Get busy plucking those geese, Beth!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm on it.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Great thread.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 24 February 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Especially the Eliot/Zeppelin mash-ups.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 24 February 2006 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

eider is duck,

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, details.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link

There are a lot of dead eiders on the beach here, killed by the big windy blizzard the other week. Also a razorbill! And a porpoise! The porpoise corpse actually preceded the blizzard. It's going through lots of changes, very slowly. Becoming more and more Swiss cheesified. My dog is strangely uninterested. I thought he'd roll in it. Where are the turkey vultures? I would have thought they'd strip it to bare bones by now.
Several years we had a lot of dead sea turtles washing up. You don't think of the waters of New England as harboring turtles and porpoises, but apparently they do.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Monday, 27 February 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Well, perhaps they USED to, but now they're all dead.

― James Morrison (JRSM), Thursday, 7 September 2006 06:02 (seventeen years ago) link

what a bizarre thread revival.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 7 September 2006 10:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ten years pass...

I was lead here by the Random Homework Googler Memorial thread.

Beth's discussion of the dead things on the beach seems more interesting than the entire preceding discussion of Prufrock. She was one of the good ones.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 20 November 2016 00:44 (seven years ago) link

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