Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted in the Grove:
Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
~Natalie Portman

Smart women speaking makes many men angry. Looking back, I see that this has been a leitmotif of my life. This may not surprise you, but it surprises me, every time.
~Elizabeth Farrelly

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
~Erica Jong

EndQuote:
The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
~Anita Loos

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Posted from the Grove:
Downed internet lines and illness reduced events at this week’s Word Games to an evening of chat and exploring far-flung neighborhoods. It continues to surprise this editor that after twelve years exploring this world, that there remain places in There he’s not yet seen.

This edition of the Post & Review will be brief. There are new places in There yet to be found.

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Prewritten for Thurs (05/12) @6pm PT/9 ET is: calibrate, tiptoe, suffocate, volcanic
Lacking a quorum of interest, there was no impromptu exercise at this week’s games. Words for that exercise were added to Prewritten’s assignment for next week. As in the past when four prompts were offered, those participating can choose to use two, three, or all four words in the drill.

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@Writers Platform

Prewritten: chivalry, newfangled

~Greymane: Misled

The knights of deception all shared a disguise
They hid behind chivalry painted with lies
They journeyed the kingdom from shadows to light
with criminal comfort so falsely polite
Misleading the people by royal decree
by newfangled promise with no guarantee
They promised them freedom in trade for their joy
and bound them with passions too dark to destroy
Gathered in silence and chained by their sin
They prayed for redemption from all they had been
Anointed with sorrow they bought with regret
They tried to get home but have not made it yet

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~BarTalk: Miss Match

Newfangled is modern is progressive is grand
It’s bitchin’ and exciting and desperately new
Ancient lines from a book once banned
Heralding chivalry an outdated view
There’s wisdom in doubt but love is unplanned
On life’s diciest road the slippery slope is you

It’s midnight dark on Fallen Street
Where hearts are broken once they meet

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