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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted bosco

      normative take: people SHOULD be as ashamed of sharing their poetry as they are of nudity ...more, actuallyhttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1293959814540713985 …

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      bosco @selentelechia
      sometimes it actually shocks me that people are more willing to share their poetry than walk around in their underwear
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      2/ my God, the negative externalities of poetry <shudder>

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted The Gormogons

      3/ yes.jpghttps://twitter.com/Gormogons/status/1293961134761037825 …

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      The Gormogons @Gormogons
      Replying to @MorlockP
      GP Most poetry should never see the light of day, just as with most bodies.
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      4/ I mean, even most of Tolkien's poems and songs are kinda cringe, and one skips over them like a 70 page Ayn Rand manifesto

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      5/pic.twitter.com/GnCjNaMOjq

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      6/ The difference between nudity and poetry is that it's acceptable to show your nudity to your spouse.

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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted bosco

      7/ rebuttal (thread?) herehttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1293963106163384321 …

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      bosco @selentelechia
      hmm on the one hand I have some snobbish frustration with the whole "90% of everything is bad" thing. if you're looking for good stuff and trying to create good stuff it can be aggravating to have to sort through the low-quality stuff but... https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1293960911984758786 …
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

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      8// SIR English is the make-believe language! https://twitter.com/1337kestrel/status/1293963201793662976 …

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted bosco

      9/ this is the correct approach if you care about children and respect them as individuals with agency, you will give them properly calibrated, actionable feedback strong statement-making movehttps://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1293963116770766849 …

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      bosco @selentelechia
      ok so when I wrote poetry as a kid there were always adults who would fawn over it no matter *what* I did and then there were the adults who would graciously accept my little scrawled couplets as the gifts they were, but only *praise me* when they thought it was good
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Literally Sean Bannon

      10/ almost everyone skips Tolkien's poems and songs, even huge Tolkien fans poetry, even top-1% poetry, is almost always badhttps://twitter.com/PhilthyPhil2012/status/1293991128920801280 …

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      Literally Sean Bannon @LiteralSheridan
      I feel bad because I did skip all of Tolkien's songs and poems, but I feel no regrets for skipping Ayn Rand's long author tracts because if you've read one you've quite literally read them all. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1293961550089334786 …
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted John Taloni

          11/ what if 'poetry' isn't really an artform, but just a memetic honeypot, tempting people to their doom?https://twitter.com/JohnTaloni/status/1293998585139220480 …

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          John Taloni @JohnTaloni
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          My wife tells the story of the Babylon 5 actor who played Marcus (Jason Carter) giving readings of dark poetry at a convention, probably Agamemcon 1 in Los Angeles. Much as B5 fans loved Marcus, he just couldn't keep an audience for that.
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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020

          12/ Like sirens singing, you steer your ship and/or reputation towards the rocks...

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        1. Eric Richards‏ @EricRichards22 13 Aug 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I remember as a child, fed on a steady diet of Tolkien and Brian Jacques, thinking that to write fantasy, you had to include a bunch of cringey songs and poems. That was the rules.

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        1. ƨꭋɘƨꭋɘvdo‏ @obversers 13 Aug 2020
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          i prefer to think of them not as Tolkien's songs, but just Middle-Earth's songs you're taking a hike two towns over, and your buddy breaks into a warbling rendition of The Road Goes Ever On, but everybody humours him because it's his favourite

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        2. Lee‏ @leepavelich 13 Aug 2020
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          I read *Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'* by Corey Olsen which did line-by-line commentaries on all the songs and poems. "Oh shit, there's actually a lot of gold in them there hills."

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 13 Aug 2020
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        1. Dedicating Ruckus‏ @ded_ruckus 13 Aug 2020
          Replying to @MorlockP

          I think Tolkien's poetry is mostly really good, but reading poetry takes a different frame of mind from reading prose, so poems embedded in a prose narrative are usually kind of wasted (unless you go back just to read the poems)

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        1. Cristiona‏ @Cristiona 14 Aug 2020
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          I feel there's a cutoff. Blake was amazing, for instance. Or, perhaps, the old stuff is good because most of the doggerel from 200 years ago has been mercifully lost.

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        2. T. Jefferson, POTUS‏ @SupremeAlterego 14 Aug 2020
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          One that stands out as a keeper to me: “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. 1/2

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        3. T. Jefferson, POTUS‏ @SupremeAlterego 14 Aug 2020
          Replying to @SupremeAlterego @MorlockP

          2/2 From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

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