Comments on: Pagan Suckled in a Creed Outworn http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/ the tao that can be blogged is not the eternal tao Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:02:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Marco http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854987 Marco Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:11:06 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854987 Perhaps a playful sense of irony is also part of the feature. Perhaps a playful sense of irony is also part of the feature.

]]> By: Ezra http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854983 Ezra Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:52:40 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854983 I like that. It certainly picked out my next blog post topic for me, didn't it? I like that. It certainly picked out my next blog post topic for me, didn’t it?

]]> By: Marco http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854971 Marco Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:03:19 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854971 Perhaps the purpose of the new feature is not to anticipate what you want to know, but what it thinks you need to know. Perhaps the purpose of the new feature is not to anticipate what you want to know, but what it thinks you need to know.

]]> By: Ezra http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854525 Ezra Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:28:04 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854525 John, that's the weird thing: it wasn't showing my own searches. I don't think I'd heard that particular phrase before, let alone searched for it. I did search for another Wordsworth quote, "<a href="http://realfake.org/blog/2006/06/20/the-child-is-the-father-of-the-man/" rel="nofollow">The child is the father of the man</a>", last year. Also weird-- but more expected-- is that a different list shows up on my mac, which is a list of things I've searched for("preternatural", "portsmouth nh furniture", "poland me", "passat wagon mpg", "pepys diary", "paper boston") and then the same generic list you have. John, that’s the weird thing: it wasn’t showing my own searches. I don’t think I’d heard that particular phrase before, let alone searched for it. I did search for another Wordsworth quote, “The child is the father of the man“, last year.

Also weird– but more expected– is that a different list shows up on my mac, which is a list of things I’ve searched for(”preternatural”, “portsmouth nh furniture”, “poland me”, “passat wagon mpg”, “pepys diary”, “paper boston”) and then the same generic list you have.

]]> By: John Cowan http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854446 John Cowan Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:06:37 +0000 http://realfake.org/blog/2007/03/02/pagan-suckled-in-a-creed-outworn/#comment-13647034969908854446 YMMV. When I type "p" into the Google box, I get this list: PUBPAT Pinafore "if you ... Pocahontas Disney Pournelle fascism Python license Proactiv ripoff parrot perl parsed fish perl -0 perl exponentiat... pig etymology pinball site:www ... pintle etymology posix stat ptrdiff_t public "harmless ..." pypy I recognize all these as things I've searched for personally; then comes a gray tearline and these: paypal pc world photobucket play.com pizza hut ps3 planes people search paris hilton psp All of which look like plausible highly popular google searches. Anyway, here's the actual Wordsworth sonnet, if you haven't looked for it already: The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up-gather'd now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I'd rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathéd horn. YMMV. When I type “p” into the Google box, I get this list:

PUBPAT
Pinafore “if you …
Pocahontas Disney
Pournelle fascism
Python license
Proactiv ripoff
parrot perl
parsed fish
perl -0
perl exponentiat…
pig etymology
pinball site:www …
pintle etymology
posix stat
ptrdiff_t
public “harmless …”
pypy

I recognize all these as things I’ve searched for personally; then comes a gray tearline and these:

paypal
pc world
photobucket
play.com
pizza hut
ps3
planes
people search
paris hilton
psp

All of which look like plausible highly popular google searches.

Anyway, here’s the actual Wordsworth sonnet, if you haven’t looked for it already:

The World is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours
And are up-gather’d now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A pagan suckled in a creed outworn,
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathéd horn.

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