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Thanks Mneme - good of you to read all these!
This was a solar effort - I did it on my own. (Groan)
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 9, 2007 at 10:47 AM
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Tonyzonit
Very clever - I love the way you take an idea and run with it. More 'music of the spheres'..
posted by
mneme
on March 9, 2007 at 7:44 AM
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Excellent imagery, and folding of your thoughts, mystically into Sonnet uni-verse, word smith you are Sir! 
posted by
lionladroar
on March 9, 2007 at 12:46 AM
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Thanks Tony for a fine and indepth reply. It was great.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on March 8, 2007 at 7:47 PM
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Hi Rumored - yes, I'm tempted by that idea, I must say!
But Pluto is the god of the underworld, so maybe a eulogy wouldn't be appropriate, as he's down there ruling away and presumably enjoying doing so!
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 8, 2007 at 9:29 AM
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Yes, Bhaskar, but from now on i'll claim i meant it all along.
It adds a nice extra dimension to that line. In fact, it was a double Bob Marley reference, to his song 'Babylon System' which refers to the first world and its unfair social caste system (from the point of view of the poor), 'Babylon' being what Rastafarians call the social, economic and political order of the developed world, which dates back to the Biblical Jewish condemnation of Babylon the whore (also a biased view of course, but understandable considering the Babylonian invasion and forced exile of the Jews in the sixth or seventh centuries BC and the destruction of Solomon's Temple), and the line also quotes from the more famous Marley song 'Exodus' which fits in nicely to the idea of leaving the solar system for more distant areas of space. Each line quotes different songs or pieces of music that have some link to each of the planets, ending in the Lennon song 'Across the Universe' which I've changed to multiverse.
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 8, 2007 at 9:27 AM
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Tony
Enjoyable and is it coincidental that you talk about Babylon? Because, it was about 2500-3000 years prior to Christ that the Simerian civilization made an indepth study of the planetary motion, which were found in their carvings.
posted by
Bhaskar.ing
on March 8, 2007 at 6:44 AM
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Tonyz, poor Pluto, that Mickey Mouse planet..the planet that was and now
isn't..hmm, maybe a eulogy to Pluto would help the pain..
..
posted by
Rumor
on March 8, 2007 at 6:35 AM
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That's interesting, Deepananda - thanks.
It is a happy coincidence. I called it Babylon system for a different reason. I wonder if anyone will be able to tell what that was? Clue - it's musical...
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 8, 2007 at 1:00 AM
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Tony
A nice poem which can have a title "An ode to the planets". It is interesting that you have mentioned Babylon System. The entire solar system, including the Soalr corona,was concieved by Summerian system and depicted in their clay tablets.
posted by
DEEPANANDA
on March 7, 2007 at 9:43 PM
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tony
nice poem about planets.
posted by
richinstore
on March 7, 2007 at 5:36 PM
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Hi Najwa and Troosha - that'll be $10 million each for your tickets, please
posted by
Antonionioni
on March 7, 2007 at 3:15 PM
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Thanks for the quick trip through our Universe!
posted by
Troosha
on March 7, 2007 at 2:38 PM
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TONY WOW JUST REAL UNIQUE,,,
,,,,by the way my planet is VENUS..
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.....the stranger
posted by
NAJWA
on March 7, 2007 at 11:32 AM
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