tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4690777541573042726..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: The BuildersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8309947573451099542010-05-20T07:50:03.671-07:002010-05-20T07:50:03.671-07:00I'm very, very sorry to hear about your plight...I'm very, very sorry to hear about your plight with the contractors. As good as it ever gets on that score, it never gets easy or, for that matter, comprehensible when it comes to doing the math.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28177375854612290812010-05-20T07:44:24.413-07:002010-05-20T07:44:24.413-07:00Well, I should say I have mixed feelings about thi...Well, I should say I have mixed feelings about this poem, and also about LW's interest in it, that's probably why I thought it needed another stanza, the mixed-message stanza... craft, the crafty, rhyme, the not-rhyme, the not-crafty off-rhyme, and (especially) the whole issue of the contractors... mixed thingies on all these, right now. But worst of all, the contractors, of whom we are in the throes of dire need, at this moment... of mixed feelings.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76784574666264144532010-05-19T16:00:43.156-07:002010-05-19T16:00:43.156-07:00You are helping my get over my general aversion to...You are helping my get over my general aversion to poems that rhyme. Thanks. I've read this once, but it will be read again.~otto~https://www.blogger.com/profile/08859835662556335529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36696855595004133982010-05-19T14:09:23.095-07:002010-05-19T14:09:23.095-07:00My friend, the architect wife of the Wittgenstein ...My friend, the architect wife of the Wittgenstein scholar turned tax lawyer, loved this and replied: <br /><br />"Modernity, mass society and factory production vs. all building as local. The carpenter used to know the woodcutter. <br /><br />Chestnut for the frame, pine for the floors, cedar for the shingles. <br /><br />Analogy with food production." <br /><br />I like it also, particularly the first stanza. Am glad you added the last stanza also.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.com