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[2007-03-15 17:09:12 +0000 UTC]
"Lou King"
(Australia)
# Statistics
Favourites: 156; Deviations: 482; Watchers: 50
Watching: 42; Pageviews: 14787; Comments Made: 2794; Friends: 42
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: RembrandtFavorite movies: "the Shawshank Redemption", "the Village", "Joyuex Noel"
Favorite bands / musical artists: Ani DiFranco, Simon & Garfunkel, the Clash, Flogging Molly, the Dresden Dolls
Favorite writers: WB Yeats, Jewel Kilcher, Leonard Cohen, King Solomon
Favorite games: "Fallout"... yes, the first one
Favorite gaming platform: PC
Tools of the Trade: OpenOffice, smudgy pens, scraps of paper, tenor ukulele, ineptly-wielded digital camera, madness.
Other Interests: Geekdom, sci-fi, fantasy, social justice, religion, music, poetry, life
# About me
Current Residence: BrisbaneFavourite genre of music: alt.folk, punk rock, folk-punk, alt.country, comedy, alternative
Favourite photographer: Speed cameras
Favourite style of art: The successful marriage of words and images
Operating System: XP (Due to laziness and fear of change)
MP3 player of choice: Laptop
Shell of choice: Conch
Wallpaper of choice: Faded, slightly yellowed
Skin of choice: Flayed
Favourite cartoon character: Dilbert
Personal Quote: "The glue that binds society has hallucinogenic fumes." - Lou King
# Comments
Comments: 208
Hello!
On behalf of #SixWordStories , I would just like to welcome you to the Group!
We have many ways for you to get involved. If you have past stories, just submit them to Freestyle , and it'll be accepted if it is a proper story. We also have Prompts, but they're a bit more restrictive... More information about them is displayed here . We have listed our guidelines here , which includes our definition on What is a Six Word Story? to help you.
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Oh, when I can. Life's gotten a bit whacky.
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I'm actually not ALL that bad. I'm just interested in history. Unfortunately, it just happens to include the, for lack of a better word, darker part of history.
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I do believe you. If it were me however I would go to greater lengths to appear not to glorify that particular villain or to show insensitivity. While I understand that there have been other atrocities not given nearly the same infamy, I also must accept that the Nazis are the singularly most hated group in modern history in my culture. If I appear to hero-worship one of the most hated of that group, even if deep down that's not who I am, I'd have to accept that I was going to take more flak than almost any other interest on earth. Of course, some people love flak...
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I would say "Keep up the good work," but that'd be a bit redundant. I know you will, whether I wish it or not!
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*offers smelling salts*
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Guten tag! Ja, ich bin sehr zufΓ€llig.
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Hello!
Thank you for linking me some of your work. Have you been to New Zealand before, have connections to NZ or just have an interest?
Nice to have creative contact from across the waters
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I've been only once and loved it. Other than that just meeting a lot of Kiwis.
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Sounds awesome, glad you've been able to come and see the country. Yeah, more or less the same for me on meeting aussies. I haven't made it to Australia yet though, but I'm hoping to get there sooner rather than later.
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Awesome, come to Brisbane!
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Sorry, but I REALLY need you to see this one.
Tonight, I had a sudden inspiration to write a religious poem. I couldn't figure out a way to put it into words... so I didn't. I made it into a picture.
I honestly believe that this picture is my most poetic work of all. It utilizes symbolism in its most beautiful form. I think that you'll find it to have more meaning than anything else I have ever submitted to this site.
[link]
The meaning of the art is in the description.
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Hey, I made another Redwall tribute poem. Like the first one, it is accrostic. However, I experimented with rhythm and rhyme again. It can be found at here: [link]
Hope you like it.
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Thank you for your fave and your comments on Secret Society
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The least I could do, brother-poet!
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You're welcome but caveat emptor... so long as we both know that I'm very lackadaisical when it comes to reading others' deviations.
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Thank you so much for the criticism. I love it when people aren't to shy to say what they really feel. My strength isn't really poetry, but I figured I'd try it out. When somebody practices poetry, it consequentially helps their other writing flow better.
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You're welcome, I'm so glad you aren't one of those sensitive folks who can't stand constructive criticism. Not that I thought you would be!
I agree that prose is improved by a mastery of poetry and vice versa. I honestly do encourage you to keep trying. If you read lots of narrative verse it'll start to become more natural to you. I recommend verse translations of Chaucer, the Sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight poet, Homer, Keats' Endymion, W B Yeats' The Wanderings of Oisin, Virgil and Dante, and verse translations of ancient Greek plays such as Medea and Electra by Prof Gilbert Murray. All of these are available from [link] in hard copies if, like me, you need to hold a book and can't muddle through with PDF.
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Thanks for the recommendations! I will get to them as soon as I can.
So far, most of my writing has been influenced by the style of the Renaissance, (especially in "Oration on the Days of Old") but Renaissance is also backed by the classics, so these will definately help as well.
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In that case you might relate most to the Middle Ages folks who were just a little before the Renaissance, especially Chaucer and the Sir Gaiwan and the Green Knight poet. I have an excellent little book of Chaucer's The Book of the Duchess with the original Middle English on one page and Bernard O'Donoghue's contemporary English verse on the facing page. It's published by Hesperus Poetry, 2007. I haven't read Dante's Divine Comedy myself but I believe it was written almost within your time period of interest.
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Self-correction. Bernard O'Donoghue didn't do the verse translation, only the foreword. E B Richmond is the translator-poet, whose name sadly does not appear on the front cover.
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I haven't read Divine Comedy but I have read excerpts. It sounds very interesting. I believe a section of the piece is titled "Dante's Inferno?"
I haven't really read entire works, but rather many excerpts. I have read excerpts from Machiavelli, Erasmus, Dante, More, and many other authors. I especially enjoy the writing style in "In Praise of Folly," in which the writing is very satirical. I haven't really utilized satire in my writing, but I think it could be quite useful. It is usually a wonderful tool in catching the audience's attention.
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Aye sir, "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso". And it looks as though they were a lot earlier than I thought, by three hundred years or so.
Ah! If you want satire, in my opinion, Jonathan Swift is the master! The Wordsworth publishing edition of "Gulliver's Travels" is free of the pesky capitalised nouns that were all the rage when it was printed (who did they think they were, Germans?) and under $4 at bookdepository.co.uk Extensive notes too!
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Hello. I am a publisher, and I'm looking for readers to join my free mailing list. If you're interested, check out my journal with the details: [link]
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Thanks for the offer. I'll pass though. But good luck with your endeavours. It sounds like you're working hard to make your dreams come true, and that's what it takes! I could do with some of that myself.
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Okay, good luck to you.
Tell me, are you otherwise interested in publish in general? Because if you war, I can point you to some handy resources for that.
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Yeah I'd like to work on getting some poetry published next year and hopefully short stories after that. Feel free to link me if you like. 
Shalom
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Hey, I decided to try writing a poem after looking through your work.
I used a basic rhythmic and rhyming pattern. However, at certain points throughout the poem, I break from the structure to make the stanza stand out.
The poem is a bit controversial, but that was intended. Good writing evokes a strong reaction. If there is no reaction, the writing was not good.
That said, my poem is here: [link]
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I finally commented. So glad I inspired you to give poetry a go on dA!
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your welcome and i thought that it was great!!
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thanks for the fave, dearie, on "Can't Handle the Truth" :3 i'm glad you liked it~~
how have you been? :]
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I'm so happy I could asplode.
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giggle. you're so charming splattering your pixels all over my computer screen in pretend.
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Hey man, i've put some more of my comedy stuff up and I would like your opinion as always. Keep up the good work.
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hey you, i featured one of your pieces in my journal
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