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George Duke wrote on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 04:48 PM UTC:
The Whitman and the Pound are being incorporated in later lines (7,25; 21,37). I meant also to name Thompson's ''Defining the Abstract,'' posted the year before, indicating Artemis as ''goddess of abstract games'' and DtA being about ''abstract strategy games.'' Also Alcyone(Q) refers to each ''artifact,'' the first sentence of DtA, in influence. In John Lawson's famous phrase, there was ''cross-fertilization'' in thought-provoking olden days, when you were expected to know at least a little from much of everything else, or even up to half the material. Very few do anymore, but maybe Gilman, myself, Jeremy Good, Paulowich, Winther, John Smith, Larry Smith -- not very many still up to snuff on what becomes increasingly impossible except superficially with less and less depth. Several times as many were generally knowledgeable back in 2000. // Between Mark Thompson's two residences, Indiana (where he explained about the legislature making pi equal an even 3.0) and Broadview, Illinois, you get Gary, Indiana, exactly the hometown to crowd of Michael Jackson. That explains necessary juxtaposition in comments yesterday for ''DtA'' and chess-set of MJ. 
Also, (1) ''Falcon wings unto his pitch'' is fairly stolen from Shakespeare and needs asterick. (2) Line 20 ''Whole cloth'' is interesting idiom for having exactly opposite meanings contradictorily: both true and false. A long list of those, such as ''cleave,'' works to  annoy literalists. http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml
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