[Writingworkshop] Psychobabble and Name Dropping

[Adam Holland]

these are great.  so much fun to read.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>
wrote:

>
> Psycholingo
>
> You may speak of your shamans and mystics,
> You can mention your lies and statistics,
> That bullshit you'll bear with,
> It doesn't compare with
> The bollocks they talk in linguistics.
>
> There are dreamers and hopeless romantics,
> There are manics, depressives and frantics,
> Though their picture is hazy,
> They're nowhere as crazy
> As students of psychosemantics.
>
>
>
> Paraphrasus Interruptus
>
> 2008-02-10
>
> Marvell, circumspect in so many respects,
> Wasn't coy when confronted with not enough sex,
>
> Lord Tennyson said it and so did Pavlova
> 'Tis better than nothing to get your leg over,
>
> Shakespeare remarked, in the passion of youth,
> Get it on, do it now, come on baby, forsooth.
>
> Keats, was it not, who would cry without cease,
> For Homer's sake, Chapman, just bring us more Greece
>
> Beckett, for brevity, up it did sum,
> With his da da da, da da da, da da da, bum
>
> A rose is a rose is a rose not a phallus,
> When cockless, go Toklas, as Gert said to Alice
>
> Hemingway married for all he was worth,
> And we know what he meant by the movement of earth,
>
> Cole Porter when thinking of birds and of bees,
> Used to wish he'd done more while he still had his knees
>
> Said Charles, in addition to fightin' and foragin'
> Species need this to arrive at an origin.
>
> Some say the Bible knows which way is north,
> And provides clear instruction on how to go forth,
>
> The universe ages and grows ever limper,
> But when it began it was not with a whimper,
>
> Agreement is general; wisdom, with luck,
> Can all be condensed in a single word.
>
>
>
> 13/02/2008 08:56
>
> Mr A
>
> Prior to refuge in the bottle,
> Try the thoughts of Aristotle,
> Politics within a city,
> How to drum up fear and pity,
> Tips on tragedies and farces,
> Hints on how to reach katharsis,
> (Like nirvana, only Greeker)
> How to be a public speaker,
> Physics, regular and meta,
> What is good and what is better,
> Osophy and ology,
> More than one apology,
> Want a book on self-improvement?
> Mr A kicked off the movement,
> How a man should live his life,
> Even when to get a wife,
> Goals to which we should aspire,
> How to overcome desire,
> His failure to be feministic,
> Makes some people go ballistic,
> Others, in frenetic rages,
> Blame him for the Middle Ages,
> There was a long paralysis,
> In awe of his analysis,
> For Mr A a little think,
> Was more amusing than a drink.
>
>
>
> 14/02/2008 12:56
> Psychobabble
>
> Book Review
>
> A man who has only a hammer'll
> Treat all as a nail, and a scammer'll
> Fit all to his theory,
> Untestable, eerie,
> Unconscionable and bicameral.
>
>
> --
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