Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Reunion*
We’ve been,
known, &
employed.
Syracuse Prof deployed
against with self-
congratulatory wit, so
students made a game noting
his own clichés plunging forth
as lectures left cautionary port.
*“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” -Umberto Eco on Casablanca
We’ve been,
known, &
employed.
Syracuse Prof deployed
against with self-
congratulatory wit, so
students made a game noting
his own clichés plunging forth
as lectures left cautionary port.
*“Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés move us, because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion.” -Umberto Eco on Casablanca
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