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What Makes Poems Good?

July 8, 2021

A video caught my attention today: What makes poems good? Reading through the first of three volumes of English poetry, I thought I’d get the

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Cruel Love

July 7, 2021

A theme that pops up fairly regularly in reading poetry is ‘cruel love’. Come away, come away, deathAnd in sad cypres let me be laidFly

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More Chaucer follow up

July 2, 2021

Reading Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, I realized I could understand quite a bit. It helps that I’ve been in more contact with older forms of English

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dave

“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“

This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.

The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.