(translated by daisy cloverleaf)
i
On a dark and stormy nightily night
The sea raged with all its mightily might
The billigits stood on the burning deck
Brave and strong they fought the fightily fight
ii
Willie the donkey was big on duty
he put out the fire in their booty
The billies stood as stoic as ahab
Whilst the magic ass covered the looty
ii
Hark and ahoy and avast scurvy scribe
looty as a word is plain silly jive
Odd thing to say to the moving finger
That choosely chooses the drowned and alive
iv
Willie the magic donkey brayed like a loon
That’s because he is a walking saloon
The fire was out and the timbers shivered
And they made port by the rhyme of the moon
Saragun Springs 
oh I say, we’ve gone all classical. Hilarious. dd
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Leila
Hilarious to see billigits in a simile with mythical captain ahab! This installment is like a sea chantey, boiled down for 2025 CE cyber electric light letters.
“The magic ass,” “scurvy scribe,” “plain silly jive,” “moving finger,” “walking saloon,” “timbers shivered,” and “the rhyme of the moon,” as just a few examples: this stuff is literally walking, talking, breathing, and jumping all over the place, ALIVE, and living, and that’s totally cool!
Cervantes once responded in print to someone who called him old. “It should also be said that you don’t write with your gray hair but with your mind, which usually gets better as you get older,” he wrote. My hair and beard are still more brown than gray but the change has come upon me; and I get what he means! Wordsworth called it “compensation.”
Dale
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Hi Dale
You have hit on something of vital importance. I believe when you deliberately exercise your brain every day it will remain vital and flexible. Age is a good thing as far as gaining experience, but nothing is worth much if it is allowed to go fallow.
At past fifty I finally forced myself to work at it every day and read instead of feeding my mind to the TV. The longer people wait the harder it gets but any effort made in that direction will yield a good result. Even if it is the billigits.
Thank you!
Leila
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Leila
Also interesting (fascinating) to note that multiple world masterpieces of literature were created when the authors were in their 40s, 50s, and/or 60s, back when the average life expectancy was around 40 (or less). The Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Montaigne’s Essays, Don Quixote, Goethe’s Faust, and Huckleberry Finn, are all masterpieces from “the second half of life.” Even Shakespeare developed late, at least when compared to his friend, drinking buddy and dangerous, bearded, wild-haired rival, Marlowe.
Dale
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A literary trivia list (not so trivial):
Dante wrote the DC between the ages of 43 and 56 (when he died immediately after finishing it).
Chaucer wrote the CT between the ages of 44 and 57 (when he died without finishing it).
Rabelais wrote G & P between 40 and 60 (when he died).
Montaigne wrote Essays between 37 and 59 (when he died).
Cervantes wrote DQ in his 50s and 60s (when he died at 69, right after finishing it).
Goethe published Faust Part Two when he was 82 (when he died).
Twain wrote HF in his 40s, mostly the second half.
It bodes well for all us oldsters as long as we keep our minds busy, and not to do so would be too darn boring anyway!
And they all wrote when the average life expectancy was around 40 and people started working when they were 10. Chaucer, as Shakespeare, wrote in an England where the average diet was beef, bread, and beer, and nothing but…and they started drinking the beer as soon as they were weaned, too (everyone was always partially drunk), not to mention no modern medicine and they thought bleeding you dry was a great idea when you were sick (which helped kill off Lord Byron as so many others). If they could do it then under those brutal circumstances, we can surely do it now too! (LOL)
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Harold Bloom also wrote his best work (BY FAR) when he was in his 50s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. Including publishing brilliant new work in the year he died at 89. (Just like Picasso produced great new work in his late 80s.) This is encouraging!
Dale
Much, or most, of Bloom’s work from his 30s and 40s is virtually, and literally, almost unreadable now…Had he died before 50, he’d already be a virtually forgotten literary critic.
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It is quite common, I think. Nowadays. Live performers such as Dylan and Judy Collins are over eighty, and Frankie Valli is still going along at ninety. If you just close up shop and wait to die, you will.
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Check – does this work? Last try didn’t.
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Don’t know why my provious try didn’t work. You could have had our friend Maysam translate. I’d like him to publish some of my stuff in Farsi / Parsi but he has not.
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Hi Doug
That happens a lot and WP never has a reason why.
But happy 82! It is an accomplishment much more than it is the passing of time.
Leila
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82 here. Newbie or past use date?
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