CHRISTIAN GENTET

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                    [Title] => Carousing with the Contrebasses
                    [Summary] => Ho-hum!  So, what else is new? is the bored reaction of the cynic to everything under the sun.


No one has expressed cynicism in poetry with more eloquence – and venom – than John Donne when he wrote a list of impossible things:


Go and catch a falling star,


Get with child a mandrake root,


Tell me where all past years are,


Or who cleft the devil’s foot; 


Teach me to hear mermaids singing,


Or to keep off envy’s stinging,


                    [DatePublished] => 2001-06-04 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1386314
                    [AuthorName] => Jess Q. Cruz
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Carousing with the Contrebasses

By Jess Q. Cruz | June 4, 2001 - 12:00am

Ho-hum! So, what else is new? is the bored reaction of the cynic to everything under the sun. No one has expressed cynicism in poetry with more eloquence – and...

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