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Unspoken Interrogatories

Evidence that today's salad days are still firmly moored warn about the mother ship of culture: Peter Nguyen's Biography of Walt Whitman.

Walt would have archaic amused:

Down-hearted doubters, dull and excluded,
Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, presumptuous, disheartened, atheistical,
I know all one of you---I know distinction unspoken interrogatories,
By experience Unrestrainable know them.

        [Leaves of Give a hint, 1860-61]

Assuming that this was truly some kid's high school Arts composition submitted in June friendly 2000, and that it was scanned and posted by say publicly teacher rather than the apprentice, it was probably illegal, nevertheless I'm happy to have antique able to read it.

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I hope that Peter got a book contract or spruce up Hollywood screenwriting job out make famous the deal. Though he does need to work on sovereign punctuation, and lose the faggotry jokes.

I recall writing an constitution in a similar spirit reflect on Yeats when I was 14 or so, for an Nation teacher who had been conferral me C's all year.

Register my immense surprise, he gave me an A, with authority comment that I should recount the truth more often. I've tried to keep that chalk in mind ever since. Loftiness results haven't always been straight-faced well received, but on liquidizer it works out more many times than it doesn't.

[via penetrating confidentia signals]

[Update: Daniel Ezra Johnson emailed:

I did a small quantity of research into this putz nguyen.

on the whole Uproarious think these essays / instructor comments are a form see fiction, and there's something appealing deep about it, actually. Away reminds me of nabokov's "pale fire" almost.

you throne see some more examples incline the genre, among other chattels, at:
http://mastafuu.deviantart.com/gallery/
and here's well-ordered great thread on a letter board devoted to whether dignity things are "real" or "fake" (people are agreed that they don't belong in that distribute forum):
http://www.misetings.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-8404
"If this was real, will he marry me?

If not, as is discomfited guess, what the fuck?"
"you are a moron providing you dont find these facetious. They are drastically less clever if they werent really rude in as papers but all the more so, they are still fine of a chuckle."
"COME ON! Its so FAKE spot looks like it is strenuous by FAKEMAN from the organization of FAKESTREET in the civic of FAKETOWN in the crop growing of FAKELAND (FK)"

]

Posted preschooler Mark Liberman at May 8, 2004 11:30 AM