Jonathan Livingstone Seagull....Revised

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Has anyone read the new revised edition with a part 4 added?

[graciegirl]

Has anyone read the new revised edition with a part 4 added?

Is this the one where he sexually exploited all of the women seagulls?

Sorry. There is so much talk about stuff like that the last few. Sigh.

I like JLS. Here this tells about part four;

Part Four: Why Now? — Jonathan Livingston Seagull (http://www.jonathanlivingstonseagull.com/part-four/)

[Boomer]

Quote of Rapscallion's Post:

Has anyone read the new revised edition with a part 4 added?
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Where, in the nursery rhyme, does it say Humpty Dumpty was an egg, and why would the King's horses, creatures without opposable thumbs and no propensity for puzzle solving, try to put him together again?

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Well, Rap, I am so embarrassed to find out I have not been keeping up with Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I will look into that immediately.

And while I am at it, I think I will suggest my book club read and discuss some Rod McKuen poetry. That would be so groovy.

Oh, and, btw, considering your interest in Humpty Dumpty, there is even more to think about....yes, indeed......a conspiracy theory......

HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED! :22yikes:

[CFrance]

Quote of Rapscallion's Post:

Has anyone read the new revised edition with a part 4 added?
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Where, in the nursery rhyme, does it say Humpty Dumpty was an egg, and why would the King's horses, creatures without opposable thumbs and no propensity for puzzle solving, try to put him together again?

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Well, Rap, I am so embarrassed to find out I have not been keeping up with Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I will look into that immediately.

And while I am at it, I think I will suggest my book club read and discuss some Rod McKuen poetry. That would be so groovy.

Oh, and, btw, considering your interest in Humpty Dumpty, there is even more to think about....yes, indeed......a conspiracy theory......

HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED! :22yikes:
I hope you can crack the Humpty Dumpty case wide open, Boomer.

[graciegirl]

I hope you can crack the Humpty Dumpty case wide open, Boomer.

I think this is the misuse of jargon.

AND it could be political.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Quote of Rapscallion's Post:

Has anyone read the new revised edition with a part 4 added?
__________________
Where, in the nursery rhyme, does it say Humpty Dumpty was an egg, and why would the King's horses, creatures without opposable thumbs and no propensity for puzzle solving, try to put him together again?

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Well, Rap, I am so embarrassed to find out I have not been keeping up with Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I will look into that immediately.

And while I am at it, I think I will suggest my book club read and discuss some Rod McKuen poetry. That would be so groovy.

Oh, and, btw, considering your interest in Humpty Dumpty, there is even more to think about....yes, indeed......a conspiracy theory......

HUMPTY DUMPTY WAS PUSHED! :22yikes:

Compared to Humpty Dumpty, Rod McKuen's work is naive...without rhyme and rhythm. It also fails to evoke the deep thinking that Humpty Dumpty demands from the reader. Do you think Rod Mc could explain the poem, "Jabberwocky" with the skill and erudition that Humpty did in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"?

[graciegirl]

Compared to Humpty Dumpty, Rod McKuen's work is naive...without rhyme and rhythm. It also fails to evoke the deep thinking that Humpty Dumpty demands from the reader. Do you think Rod Mc could explain the poem, "Jabberwocky" with the skill and erudition that Humpty did in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"?

It's brillig.

[CFrance]

Humpty goes way back before Alice.

And I think the notion that it's political in today's definition of "political" is basted on questionable facts!

[Rapscallion St Croix]

It's brillig.

If nonce had not been introduced into our language, we would be without treasures such as:

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip

or

Ob La Di, Ob La Da

or

Zip a Dee Do Dah

[graciegirl]

Humpty goes way back before Alice.

And I think the notion that it's political in today's definition of "political" is basted on questionable facts!

I was being funny.

Oh. So were you. Basted. Got it.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

I wonder why Humpty was sitting on a wall instead of a front poach.....I crack me up. Omelette, y'all take it from here.

[CFrance]

I was being funny.

Oh. So were you. Basted. Got it.
You got it! (I had to scramble around for that one)😀

[Rapscallion St Croix]

It's brillig.

The world would have been enriched if the poem had contained a word that rhymed with "orange".

[CFrance]

I wonder why Humpty was sitting on a wall instead of a front poach.....I crack me up. Omelette, y'all take it from here.
Author's privilege... So he could have Humpty fall over easy.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

You got it! (I had to scramble around for that one)😀...

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[Rapscallion St Croix]

Author's privilege... So he could have Humpty fall over easy.

I see...you want to play hard boil.

[graciegirl]

Author's privilege... So he could have Humpty fall over easy.

The best so far.

[CFrance]

The world would have been enriched if the poem had contained a word that rhymed with "orange".
You're yolking, right?

[Rapscallion St Croix]

You're yolking, right?

I knew I was taking a whisk.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

I think we have egghausted the list of puns. I guess I am henting that I feel a bit cooped up by this exchange. I wasn't eggspeckting it to go on for so long.

[Boomer]

:DCompared to Humpty Dumpty, Rod McKuen's work is naive...without rhyme and rhythm. It also fails to evoke the deep thinking that Humpty Dumpty demands from the reader. Do you think Rod Mc could explain the poem, "Jabberwocky" with the skill and erudition that Humpty did in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass"?


Oh, Rapscallion, to think I thought yesterday to be a "frabjous day" when I could engage in a little silly on TOTV..........

Just for the record, I knew. Even in 1970, I knew Rod McKuen was a button-pusher. Therefore, I really do not have egg on my face. I just have to recognize the need to use emoticons for clarification around here. (sigh)

[CFrance]

I think we have egghausted the list of puns. I guess I am henting that I feel a bit cooped up by this exchange. I wasn't eggspeckting it to go on for so long.
But wait! There's bind to be more. I shell regroup and rethink.

[CFrance]

I think we have egghausted the list of puns. I guess I am henting that I feel a bit cooped up by this exchange. I wasn't eggspeckting it to go on for so long.
Don't give up the shir yet!

[Rapscallion St Croix]

:D


Oh, Rapscallion, to think I thought yesterday to be a "frabjous day" when I could engage in a little silly on TOTV..........

Just for the record, I knew. Even in 1970, I knew Rod McKuen was a button-pusher. Therefore, I really do not have egg on my face. I just have to recognize the need to use emoticons for clarification around here. (sigh)

Also, for the record...I think I got it. No need for emoticons. You were mocking..in a friendly way...my interest in Jonathan Livingston Seagull...the book, not the character. Point taken. JSL doesn't rank highly among the great metaphorical or allegorical works. To me, it was just a whimsical story that I liked. You are being charitable by calling McKuen a button pusher. I would say he was the lyrical equivalent of a snake oil salesman, seeking and achieving commercial success via pseudo-intellectual musings.

Now, Humpty Dumpty, that is an enigma wrapped in a mystery inside of a dream....sorry, Winston Churchill.

[graciegirl]

Also, for the record...I think I got it. No need for emoticons. You were mocking..in a friendly way...my interest in Jonathan Livingston Seagull...the book, not the character. Point taken. JSL doesn't rank highly among the great metaphorical or allegorical works. To me, it was just a whimsical story that I liked. You are being charitable by calling McKuen a button pusher. I would say he was the lyrical equivalent of a snake oil salesman, seeking and achieving commercial success via pseudo-intellectual musings.

Now, Humpty Dumpty, that is an enigma wrapped in a mystery inside of a dream....sorry, Winston Churchill.

Lifted from Bach on part four; (not linked, lifted)

The one who told me never to quit was Jonathan Livingston Seagull. After the eighteenth rejection, he said it once more, "Try again."
I'm still learning.**The crash that sent me near death…what a blessing of high education it's been, through the day when Puff, my light seaplane and I were each of us rebuilt and we flew together again. Lots of adventures, lots of fictions, one fact we live.**
The one reality in all our lives, I think, it's called Love.**The fictions, the dramas we act, teach us quietly the power of Love.

[Boomer]

Also, for the record...I think I got it. No need for emoticons. You were mocking..in a friendly way...my interest in Jonathan Livingston Seagull...the book, not the character. Point taken. JSL doesn't rank highly among the great metaphorical or allegorical works. To me, it was just a whimsical story that I liked. You are being charitable by calling McKuen a button pusher. I would say he was the lyrical equivalent of a snake oil salesman, seeking and achieving commercial success via pseudo-intellectual musings.

Now, Humpty Dumpty, that is an enigma wrapped in a mystery inside of a dream....sorry, Winston Churchill.


Thank you, Rap. (May I call you Rap?)

Please forgive me. I do not know what caused me to react in such a way to your McKuen comment. Turns out, we think the same way about him.

I guess I must have been thrown into a state of hyperawareness ......you know, thinking about "slithy toves" and such, on the lookout for "the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"

Anyway, thanks for the clarification. I apologize for needing coddling.

[Rapscallion St Croix]

Thank you, Rap. (May I call you Rap?)

Please forgive me. I do not know what caused me to react in such a way to your McKuen comment. Turns out, we think the same way about him.

I guess I must have been thrown into a state of hyperawareness ......you know, thinking about "slithy toves" and such, on the lookout for "the jaws that bite, the claws that catch!"

Anyway, thanks for the clarification. I apologize for needing coddling.

I always wondered if Lewis Carroll was channeling Jonathan Swift.

[Taltarzac725]

I always wondered if Lewis Carroll was channeling Jonathan Swift.

I loved Gulliver's Travels. Soon I will have to look at that 4th part of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. And I recall it was a very fast read.