Topic: rpgs and poetic tradition...
Started by: Kesher
Started on: 4/4/2006
Board: Forge Birthday Forum
On 4/4/2006 at 7:24pm, Kesher wrote:
rpgs and poetic tradition...
Okay, this is nowhere near as pretentious as that title makes it sound...
So, I've been reading a lot of mid-20th century poetry lately, and the gigantic book The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner and the following analogies began popping up in my head like brightly colored mushrooms:
Dave Arneson is our Homer
Gygax is Ovid, which maybe ain't fair, but he sure ain't Homer
Greg Stafford is, well, I can't decide, but someone.
(large interlude, eschewing any sort of chronology)
Ron Edwards is Ezra Pound (y'know, pre-Pisan imprisonment days)
Vincent is like a weird mixture of Blake and Whitman
Ben Lehman is Rimbaud
Jared Sorensen is Andre Breton, or maybe Tristan Tzara (okay, they're not primarily poets, but I've been reading the Surrealist Manifestoes as well as octaNe and c'mon, it fits...)
Aaron
On 4/4/2006 at 8:14pm, Lisa Padol wrote:
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Who's our James Joyce?
And who's our Dumas?
-Lisa
On 4/4/2006 at 8:17pm, 1of3 wrote:
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I usually considered the Forge the neoteric Alexandria. So someone here ought to be Kallimachos.
On 4/4/2006 at 11:52pm, Kesher wrote:
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OH YES, fuckin' Joyce... I skipped right over him 'cause I was thinkin' poets, but yeah...
I say the sum total of all D+D homebrews is the rpg equivalent of Finnegans Wake. Yup.
And yeah man, Alexandria; either that or Babylon...
Aaron
On 4/5/2006 at 3:21am, Ben Lehman wrote:
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Clinton is moving towards being our Robert Frost.
yrs--
--Ben
P.S. I mean that as a compliment. I realize that Frost gets bashed in some academic circles. This is because some academic circles are full of pikers.
On 4/5/2006 at 6:38am, Peter Nordstrand wrote:
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Greg Stafford is Snorri Sturlasson
And Ron isn't Ezra Pound, he is Hugh Hefner
Cheers,
/Peter
On 4/5/2006 at 6:47am, talysman wrote:
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Peter wrote:
Greg Stafford is Snorri Sturlasson
no, he's obviously Edmund Spenser.
On 4/5/2006 at 8:23am, droog wrote:
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Emily Care Boss is, of course, Emily Dickinson.
Paul Czege is Charles Bukowski.
On 4/5/2006 at 2:25pm, Emily Care wrote:
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Alas I did not wait for love
But then it came for me
It found me in the underpass
Where conflicts came to be....
Tony LB could be our Byron and Michael Miller our Keats.
(Though I think with less animosity between the two).
On 4/5/2006 at 2:57pm, Kesher wrote:
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Okay, Stafford is Snorri, absolutely!
So we have Byron and Keats; who's Shelley?
I agree Ben, Bobby Frost gets the shaft-- he's a bit out of fashion these days. I can see some Hayden Carruth in Clinton, too...
For some reason I was thinking of Paul Czege as more akin to John Berryman, but Bukowski, yeah, I can see that.
Aaron
On 4/5/2006 at 5:26pm, Miskatonic wrote:
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Kesher,
I'm gonna say our Joyce has not yet been.
On 4/5/2006 at 7:59pm, jerry wrote:
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Peter wrote:
And Ron isn't Ezra Pound, he is Hugh Hefner
"Thank heaven, for little games..."
Jerry
On 4/5/2006 at 8:00pm, Mark D. Eddy wrote:
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Dumas Pere, or Fils? Rein*Hagen for Pere, I'd say.
R. Sean Borgstrom is the Sibyl.
On 4/6/2006 at 10:32am, Michael S. Miller wrote:
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Emily wrote:
Tony LB could be our Byron and Michael Miller our Keats.
(Though I think with less animosity between the two).
I'm not much of a poetry guy, but if I have to be one of the Romantics, I get to be Shelley. Why? Because if I kick off prematurely, my wife will totally devote herself to promoting my body of work.
As for Kat's equivalent of Frankenstein ... it's in development, I assure you.
On 4/6/2006 at 10:34am, droog wrote:
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I'm kind of thinking right now that Tony might be Dorothy Parker.