Comments on: Spambot of the day; poem of the day https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/ A blog about political change, among other things Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825854 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:22:23 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825854 neo:

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones considered himself more of an antenna than a creator. He often felt he was picking up transmissions from somewhere.

He woke up out of a dead sleep with the riff for “Satisfaction” in his head. He rolled over, picked up his guitar and played it into a cassette player. Then he rolled back, fell asleep and forgot it … until he checked his tape player.

The rest is history.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825827 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:56:07 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825827 huxley:

The Bee Gees said many songs just came to them, in that same way.

The survivor, Barry, still writes songs. But not like that.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825826 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:51:02 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825826 Bob Dylan had an amazing run through “Blonde on Blonde” (1966). Then that well ran dry.
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Bradley: Have you ever looked back at the music you have written with surprise?

Dylan: I used to. I don’t do that anymore. I don’t know how I got to write those songs. Those early songs were almost magically written. Try to sit down and write something like “It’s Alright Ma.” There’s a magic to that, and it’s not Siegfried and Roy kind of magic, you know? It’s a different kind of penetrating magic. And, you know, I did it. I did it at one time.

Bradley: Do you think you can do it again today?

Dylan: No. You can’t do something forever. I did it once, and I can do other things now. But, I can’t do that.

https://www.liesegardner.com/blog/bob-dylan-on-magical-writing

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825825 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:40:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825825 Some American writer expressed his skepticism of the Person from Porlock story, figuring that Coleridge just ran out of inspiration and got stuck.

Inspiration can come on so strong and effortless, then desert a writer, especially if it is based in part on drugs.

“Kublai Khan” is a near miraculous fragment. I can well understand Coleridge’s decision not to finish it with more pedestrian poetry.

]]> By: Harpoon https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825824 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:31:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825824 Ray Bradbury wrote a lovely short story, (very) loosely inspired by the Coleridge poem, called “A Miracle of Rare Device”. I read it as a child long before I knew of the poem.
https://thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-content/uploads/sites/429/2025/03/A-Miracle-of-Rare-Device-Ray-Bradbury.pdf

]]> By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825821 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:00:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825821 A fragment with more power than a polished work – like the Nike of Samothrace.

]]> By: SHIREHOME https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825759 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 02:51:01 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825759 I know of it, knew it came from a drug induced dream, but I have never read it.

]]> By: Ladyhobbit https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825750 Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:19:41 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825750 One of my favorite poems, and one of my dad’s favorites, too!

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825739 Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:23:00 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825739 Neo:

Well that’s reassuring. Thanks.

]]> By: Niketas Choniates https://thenewneo.com/2025/10/11/spambot-of-the-day-poem-of-the-day/#comment-2825725 Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:54:24 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=144567#comment-2825725 Douglas Adams’ Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency revolves around the lost ending of “Kubla Khan”, as its existence represents a threat to the human race, and clears up the mystery of “a person on business from Porlock” as well as what the poem was really about.

Considerably less zany than The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, and I think it is his best-written book.

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