tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6477902646924965360..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: A streak of rust (Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore: Gray Fox)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53178380614288702162015-06-14T09:41:46.421-07:002015-06-14T09:41:46.421-07:00(Also "such as we" to me has a stronger ...(Also "such as we" to me has a stronger arrogance proprietary ring to it... kind of blowing our clenched fingers and rubbing them onto our chest in pride thingy.) Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692776372807142753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87976233312898241772015-06-14T09:38:46.720-07:002015-06-14T09:38:46.720-07:00Hmmm... the web can of Pandoric worms have wriggle...Hmmm... the web can of Pandoric worms have wriggled out of the their lingual box it seems... (I'm still laughing over "the labyrinthine workings of the boiler room of the ark of the covenant sunk deep beneath the blogger dashboard"... you might make that the title of your next book! it should go into the Bartletts for sure... does ANYONE but us or we consult these tattered tomes anymore?) <br /><br />I wasn't expecting my note to you to be posted, but in fact changing it from "us" to "we" just sounded better to me, and there was almost a kind of Judy Holiday comic wrong-rightness about it in my ear... ah well, back to mama Rabbit (I've been saying this lately, to no great consequence...)<br /><br />By the way, Maestro, we know where you get your poems, but where do you get your great gallery hordes of photos? (Keep your secret!) Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692776372807142753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-70764175109163591872015-06-14T09:05:56.129-07:002015-06-14T09:05:56.129-07:00Mmmm... groan... there now come directives from th...Mmmm... groan... there now come directives from the endarkened outer rows of the peanut gallery concerning our perceived liberties with the such as us/such as we crux... a trouble patch familiar to all haunters of English/American usage, with the locus classicus being the debate over John Simon's views on the correctness (or lack of same) of the grammar of The Whiffenpoof Song... but before getting too deep into that debate (not that it isn't intoxicating) here are the two truths which we hold to be self evident, on this issue:<br /><br />1. Both "such as us" and "such as we" have proponents, with the former usage generally accorded precedence (habitual custom of the language as used); and<br /><br />2. neither our committee of experts, nor the peanut gallery volunteers, nor the OED, nor Fowler nor other body is familiar with the labyrinthine workings of the boiler room of the ark of the covenant sunk deep beneath the blogger dashboard, so let me just hint that, once a post has struggled to be born from these nether regions, its fate is to live, and any attempt by me, or for that matter anyone, to fool with it, has approximately the same effect that greeted Fibber McGee, when he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9FGC68YcwM" rel="nofollow">opened the door of the hall closet</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25958378151464017062015-06-14T08:17:15.362-07:002015-06-14T08:17:15.362-07:00Many thanks Abdal-Hayy and Tisa.
Abdal-Hayy, as t...Many thanks Abdal-Hayy and Tisa.<br /><br />Abdal-Hayy, as to the text, the committee of experts has now respectfully sat upon the matter (hopefully without crushing), and unanimously adjudged the entry entirely adequate as is. <br /><br />As to the photos, obviously the gray foxes are outnumbered here by their red cousins, but as Abdal-Hayy's fox patrols the wild-urban interface, it seemed any fox dogged enough to work that fraught territory could be thought to have in common with any other fox working the same hinterland at least that one thing, the being at the fringe of, and in the way of, civilization -- the lurking vagrancy, the insolent disregard for clear and present danger ever at hand. <br /><br />On that latter note, the danger, there are those on the committee who abhor the sight of dead animals under any circumstance; the voting on this issue always swings back and forth; today's two dead foxes are seen in the interests of truth in reporting, they're fairly representative, sadly.<br /><br />The best look one gets at a wild animals any more, here on the freeway feeder, is usually the awful sight of road kill. What with the driest year ever, and no water in the hills, the deer have stayed down here in order to survive, and it's a world of risk for them. This morning, a mature and largely pregnant doe, hit and killed on the road, lay aslant, her body thrown to the side, still warm and wet with the marks, as the scavenging crows began the next part of the deconstruction job, busily pecking out the great staring eyes while dodging traffic.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68974362043203273472015-06-14T06:29:56.691-07:002015-06-14T06:29:56.691-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08073232720171159647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-75472011067911700572015-06-14T06:14:42.057-07:002015-06-14T06:14:42.057-07:00Lovely sweet Tom. I changed "such as us"...Lovely sweet Tom. I changed "such as us" to "such as we" and took off the exclamation point at the end. If you think that wise, and can, do, if not, well, leave as is. The photos are so searing... witnesses as we are to dire straits. Thanks.Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05692776372807142753noreply@blogger.com