“The first thing to say is that you’ve got to start getting up things to say for yourself, if you want to hold your own. And the pre-first thing to say is that you gotta have an own to hold.”
Robert Frost said this as a guest lecturer at Dartmouth College in 1949. Sixty years later, I’m finding it inspiration to get up my own rigmarole.
This is an attempt to hold my own by first trying to figure the own I’m wanting to hold. Working backwards, maybe I’ll figure out some things to say for myself. I'd like to say I'm inspired entirely by Robert Frost and others of his caliber but I'm as likely to quote Teresa Guidice as I am one of the most beloved American poets.
“You see, you’ve got to get up a rigmarole. Don’t be afraid of the word. Get up a rigmarole.”
Here goes.
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MCL! Two of my most beloved cultural icons in your first post... what a glorious omen for the future of this blog! Keep up the hilarious work.
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