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SONNETS
#87-90 for Tea Time in L.A. #35 - TOPIC: "ENTROPY"
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Rhetorical verse for Tea Time in
L.A. #35- (Talking about Buffy as Shakespeare
would have. <g>)
Posted by: forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:46
PM
NOTE: If you watched
"Entropy" (last night's Buffy the Vampire
Episode - 6.18)
this sonnet sequence, it will
make a heck of a lot more sense.
<smile>
BIGGER NOTE: The
insane idea of putting Buffy
thoughts in
Shakespearean sonnet form .
. . is based on the even more insane idea
that
you might want to give it a
try yourself.
For a "sonnetized"
explanation of why this is not
insane <g> . . . you might read
my
previous Bronze threads WHY I POST IN
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS:
PART
1:
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=48156
PART
2:
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=48152
THEN
if that challenge seems like an interesting one to
you, look for TEA TIME in L.A.
at
7:00 PM BRONZE TIME daily . . . which is
truly strange. <g> But it
just
might save the world. <ewg> In any
case, you can brag about being able to write
better than fill-in-the-blank.
<g>
TEA TIME SONNETS
#87-90/154(Shakespeare
wrote 154 sonnets . . . why not you?
<g>)
Rhetorical
verse in Shakespearean sonnet
form
CONSTRAINTS
- RE: "Enropy" Episode 6.18 of
BtVS
(1)
WITHIN THE NEXT TWO HOURS I'll traverse . .
.
[OOPS . . . WE'LL
HIT THE 1800-CHARACTER MESSAGE
LIMIT.
READ THE ENTIRE 4-SONNET
SEQUENCE. . . BELOW]
NOTE: TO
KEEP THE SONNETS FROM SCROLLING INTO OBLIVION
<g> . . .
PLEASE DON'T REPLY HERE,
THANKS,
POST FEEDBACK / COMMENTS /
QUESTIONS AT
tid=80583
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=80583
you
speak
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Responses
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NOTE: Please post feedback/comments in
FEEDBACK thread tid=80583
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:57
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http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=80583
FOR
FURTHER INFO: See Today's Tea Time CORKBOARD
at
http://www.buffy.com/bronze_posts.jsp?tid=96296
CORRECTION:
Title of Sonnet sequence is incorrectly given (at one
place)
as MORE GRAY . . . The correct title is
CONSTRAINTS
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1 of 4 (sonnet sequence) CONSTRAINTS -
(about BtVS episode 6.18 "Entropy")
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:53
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TEA TIME SONNETS
#87-90/154
Rhetorical verse in
Shakespearean sonnet
form
MORE GRAY -
RE: "Lie To Me" Episode #19 / 2.7 of
BtVS
(1) WITHIN THE
NEXT TWO HOURS I'll traverse
my mind concerning
last night's "Entropy."
The path I trace
constrained by formal verse,
but on
that highway new things I will see . .
.
. . . that would not cross my mind
without the rules
I have agreed to
follow by my choice
of Shakespeare's
sonnet form. My case unspools
within
constraints that give my soul its
voice.
Our genre box well
checked, LET US NOW TURN
TO BROADER IMPLICATIONS
OF constraint
within the
Buffyverse. The facts we learn
along
the way constrain the tale they
paint.
The story line the writer take's
not free.
The past
constrains "the future" -- what will
be.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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2 of 4 (sonnet sequence) CONSTRAINTS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:52
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(2)
COHERENCE IN THE BUFFYVERSE demands
the
logic of the past not be undone
by writers
treating "facts" as shifting sands.
THIS SONNET'S
POINT? To bring into the sun . . .
. . .
the failures of the writer to
.constrain
himself to story points that
fit within
the context laid before. Go with the
grain
of planks nailed down before that underpin
. . .
. . . suspension of our
disbelief because
the house that Joss
has built with such great care
stands only if the
writers know the laws
that kieep the walls
suspended in mid-air.
IN "ENTROPY" THE
WRITER DROPPED THE BALL.
In two more sonnets
I'll explain my
call.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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3 of 4 (sonnet sequence) CONSTRAINTS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:50
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(3)A VENGEANCE
DEMON NEEDS her power source.
And
Anya was transformed (when hers was
smashed)
into a normal girl -- which set the
course
for her romance with Xander that's
now crashed.
SO HOW DID ANYA's veiny
vengeance face
appear when that identity is
gone?
She wears no amulet (as is the
case
with her old vengeance friend who
last tricked Dawn . . .
. . . into
a wish that trapped the Scoobs at
home.
YET all through "Entropy" it's
Anya's goal
(with clarity of wronged-girl
monochrome)
to get someone to wish her X
to stroll . . .
. . . existence in a cursed
abismal state.
Repay his "disavowal" with
pure hate.
[CONTINUED
BELOW]
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4 of 4 (sonnet sequence) CONSTRAINTS
cont.
| Posted by:
forensicpopouri - May 01, 2002, 6:49
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(4) THE PROBLEM
WITH ALL THIS is Anya's got
no power to
make wish reality.
Her vengeance demon
friend explained the plot --
"the
fact" that vengeance demons are not free . .
.
. . . to exercise their power to
revenge
themselves -- they must let others
make the wish.
AND ON THIS STUPID
POINT our plot did hinge --
that Anya went
to ev'ryone to fish . . .
. . . for wishes
for disaster for her beau.
BUT DUH! Who is the
demon with the pow'r?
Her vengeance demon
friend could make it so
if Anya made
the wish. A WASTED HOUR!
I've stretched this
stupid point out way too long. <g>
THE
BOTTOM LINE: Dear writers, Learn the
song!
THE
END
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HAIKU
CODA
I've often argued
about iambic
meter.
You still want to fight?
<ewg>
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