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Re: Query: PF's pirouetting nymph?
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Dear Steven,
You may well be right but remember the Edsel Ford case that we had all
overlooked for fifty years. The strategy should be to investigate
possibilities
first, before assigning a possible allusion to whimsy, no?
Best, Don
Quoting Steven <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET>:
> I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of the
> early 50s.... but -- Why are you so sure that there's a real life
> model for the image? Like a lot of the names and such in his
> American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
> generalizing from the specifics of American culture.
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>
>> Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry
>> in this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The
>> winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson
>>
>>
>>
>> Line 412ff The Cause
>> of Poetry on Channel 8.
>> A nymph came
>> pirouetting, under white
>> Rotating petals,
>> in a vernal rite
>> To kneel before
>> an altar in a wood
>> Where various
>> articles of toilet stood.
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
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You may well be right but remember the Edsel Ford case that we had all
overlooked for fifty years. The strategy should be to investigate
possibilities
first, before assigning a possible allusion to whimsy, no?
Best, Don
Quoting Steven <mcquaryq@COMCAST.NET>:
> I was born in '54 and so don't qualify as an expert on the tv of the
> early 50s.... but -- Why are you so sure that there's a real life
> model for the image? Like a lot of the names and such in his
> American triptych, there was a lot of fun had by the author,
> generalizing from the specifics of American culture.
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2006, at 1:48 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
>
>> Can some one in my aged age group (or older) identify the toiletry
>> in this description in a TV commercial circa the early fifties? The
>> winner will be immortalized in a footnote. Don Johnson
>>
>>
>>
>> Line 412ff The Cause
>> of Poetry on Channel 8.
>> A nymph came
>> pirouetting, under white
>> Rotating petals,
>> in a vernal rite
>> To kneel before
>> an altar in a wood
>> Where various
>> articles of toilet stood.
>
> Steven
>
>
>
>
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