User:Kronikdenny/sandbox

This page is dedicated to the study of " Po-emetry " ...that is, the study of word-play, and it's role in constructing a virtual symposium in the mind of each reader...the shaping of words into sentences into paragraphs into pages that keep us reading until our eyes can take no more. Each writer somehow finds a way to keep our undivided attention-oblivious to outside stimuli; the children screaming at each other, or the water boiling over onto the stove... What is it that holds us fast? How can the writer achieve in us such a state of bliss?...How is it that some writers create such works, while others fail to even glean a second glance?... Most often, those who are prolific seem to lose their steam, and become rather blase' uninspired and lackluster...though there are a chosen few, in the thousands of " writers " who pollute the pages, who stand out from the pack, inspiring the reader to pull 'all-nighters ' and chug massive amounts of coffee and caffeine based energy drinks, just to stay awake and finish these incredible works... those writers are the ones who will live in infamy, forever ingrained in the minds of all who are lucky enough to catch the random snatches of greatness, swallowed up by the oversized beast that is the book world... In fact, when we are fortunate enough to come across one of these writers, it's almost certain that they are not of the " normal " ilk...it is even more certain that they are one of the outcasts of " normal " writing, pushing the boundaries and straining the barriers and constraints of story-telling.

At first, any book can grab the reader's lustful eye...any collection of pages will do... from an auto-biography of a former night clerk at the 7/11 in Phoenix, Arizona who warded off two would be criminals with nothing more than some reverse psychology, and a baseball bat to the cranium of the robber on the left... or the sad story of the teenage Mother from Abington, Massachusetts who lost her only child in a bizarre twist of fate, walking on the beach one night...

Soon though, those particular books don't move you anymore, they have become rudimentary, and drab somehow... You're looking for something greater to move you...so you explore one of these " old " writers you always hear about... You go to the library and walk casually along the aisle in front of the racks; slowly perusing the selection of horror stories and cult classics

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you eventually find a man originally from your state's capital...a brilliantly twisted man named Edgar Allan Poe...you reach out slowly, cautiously...it is a collection of poems...you recognize the one called " the Raven " ... you remember that your class read it in the 5th grade, and it sparks a sense of familiarity... then standing there timeless, you thumb through this collection and recognize yet another Poe story called " the Tell-Tale Heart "...and another, called, " the Purloined Letter "... Snapping awake a bit, you raise your head and move toward the next line of books on the other side of the aisle...scanning...scanning... randomly, you head out of this area and into the next... Literature... hmmm, James Joyce...you remember a poem of his that was set to music by Syd Barrett; formerly of the band Pink Floyd, called " Golden Hair " ...and the book " Dubliners "... moving on down the aisle, you reach the end of the stack and see " Lord Alfred Tennyson- Idylls of the King "..." Ulysses "...and " the Princess "... further down the rack you see Tolstoy..." the Death of Ivan Ilyich "...Anna Karenina " and the massive and virtually unattainable, " War and Peace "... you still have that one at home...as does almost every other afficianado of great literature...yet, it seemed a bit too pedantic, or explanitive of the Russian proletariat to really understand or get in to at the time...you've been vowing to try again for seventeen years..." then why?...[ you ask yourself ]...am i so into Dostoevsky?..." Moving on, you head back in his direction... " Aaahh...here we go!....." ...lain before your lusting eyes are such classics as " Notes From Underground ", " Crime and Punishment ", the Brothers Karamazov ", " the Idiot "... There are so many excellent writers to choose from...suddenly you realize, three hours have passed and you have collected a short stack of thirteen books!!... You may have to put a few back...

this shows to me, how much each and every story has the power to mesmerise some readers into a virtual stupor of undivided attention and a bliss of unattended outside stimuli. Each writer, whether they have made some impact on me personally, or made me take their offering and reject it wholeheartedly, did make at least some kind of impact on me or my thought... There are far too many excellent writers and prolific penners of incredible parables to list, but why not try?..... Kahlil Gibran, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nick Blinko, Stephen King, Clive Barker, Derek Walcott, " Homer ", Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dylan Thomas, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, T.S. Eliot, Albert Camus, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P.Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Emily Dickinson, Lev Tolstoy, Lord Byron, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Mary Shelley, Paramahansa Yogananda, Frank Herbert, Franz Kafka, Brian Lumley, Henry David Thoreau, Plato, Confucius, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, Jamaica Kincaid, James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Vladimir Nabokov, Anton Chekov, Salman Rushdie, Ezra Pound, Robert R. McCammon, Anne Frank, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, William S. Burroughs, Samuel L. Clemens, Jane Austen, Ovid, Virgil, Jules Verne, Jack London, Alexandre Dumas, Voltaire, Goethe, Dante, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Aldous Huxley, Ernest Hemingway, Walt Whitman, Henry James, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Augusten Burroughs, John Steinbeck, Kurt Vonnegut, Amy Tan, Chinua Achebe, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Rice Borroughs, John Milton, Samuel Coleridge, William Blake, Stephen Crane, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Keats, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant, Max Planck, Jean Paul Sartre, Protagoras... the poems and plays of Euclid, Euripides, Plato, Samuel Beckett, Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, William Butler Yeats, William Wordsworth... I have named only a handful that came to mind...there is such a vast amount of writers, poets, story-tellers and prosaists that fuel the fires of inspiration for so many of us, their works will astound their readers for some time to come.