Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
~Chuck Reid

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny …’
~Isaac Asimov

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.
~Dick Cavett

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Posted from the Grove:
Until they’re able to direct quarks and leptons into performing for stop-motion pictures, the following is the world’s smallest movie. It’s made with atoms

www.youtube.com/madewithatoms

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Prewritten for Thurs (05/29) 5 pm PT/8 ET is: constellation, fireworks

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@Writers Platform
Glass Table:

~Piffin: Black Nylon Sanctuary
The strategic placement of a buzzing new technology and getting wet under an umbrella

~Stejovis: Various Sonnets  
Example of a word sonnet taken from a link in Various Sonnets

Damien Bailey: VICE OR VIRTUE
From: Foreplay: An Anthology of Word Sonnets

i’ve
encountered
every
vice
and
virtue
out
there
but
none
as
confusing
as 
you

~ReenRen: Ode to My Rainbow
Rainbow love, captivating, ephemeral; precious for its beauty and stellar brevity; a passionate storm and … then she’s gone

~Aluria: A Roll of the Dice
From family archives: they rolled in the aisles in holy fervor, then rolled in the hay with indiscreet ardor; first discovery and a judge without court, then a roll of the dice with the unfortunate score: Heaven 1 (won), 2 for Hell (straight away)

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Prewritten: Spend a couple minutes with Edward Hopper’s, Nighthawks at the Diner, spin a thread from what you see

http://wordgrove.com/nighthawks.html

~Aluria: The Diner
Writers, denizens of the night in the heart of the city, keep vampire hours; they meet, they talk, they write in silence until first light stirs the city; tired and drained, they collect their sheets of paper and trade them for sheets of linen

~BarTalk: Phillies

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Impromptu: dice, grave

~Piffin: The Wrecking Ball
Subtle reminder that patience with the process gives the fruit of a tree a chance to ripen; a dithering time-sink for some is part of the writerly process for others

~Jessalee: June 23, 1967
A frantic shedding of clothes, a neglect of the hand brake in nature’s hurry for procreation; 9 months later a newborn takes a name from the family story they tell to this day

~Stejovis: Killer Game
Before reading, know that: lorica segmentata is an armored breastplate, that gladius is a short sword, that pilum is a javelin about two meters long, that a sarcina was a Roman legionary’s marching pack, a loculus was his satchel, and that slowly bleeding your life out upside down over some victor’s dice game was a chance you took as a soldier

~BarTalk: haiku

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