Trout that swim

Apr 19, 2007

They say that all the lines of the excellent Eno/Cale song "Cordoba" were taken by Eno from a Spanish textbook.  (An odd textbook, no doubt.)  If Kotsko can make multiple posts consisting only of links to his own posts, why can't I?  Here is a list of things I've written relying on various constraints or artificialities:

The ninja thing shouldn't really count, but I did write it with the thought that I should incorporate as many Hopkins lines as possible.  I thought there were more than the above (I'm deliberately omitting some stuff, admittedly), but perhaps I'm wrong, or have merely forgotten.  I'm not really sure if this counts.

Later: a villanelle about Jonah Goldberg (with German rendition in comments).

Later still: a double lipogram, in i and u.  And a stylistic exercise, with bonus in-jokes and allusions, that partly succeeded. This too was not a great success though I think it has some good lines. But this Russified Lichtenberg aphorism came off pretty well, I think.

A cento, more or less, drawn from the OED.