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Saturday, June 30, 2018

"Erns up early worms get sure'll..." Spinning, Spinning, Ooh, Spinning, Spinning or Little Richard of Tehran: A Constrained Nonsense Rhyme

Erns up early
worms get sure'll. 

As santurs skirl, 
fresh chap (no churl) 
sports skirts of pearl.

Fast folds, unfurling, 
cast a curl. 

He hurly-burly 
twirls; they swirl.
(If me, I’d hurl.) 

Still, dervish, whirling, 
gets the girl.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita Anagramaniacal Opening Lines

Lolita, light of my life...  ...might fail to yell "Foil!"...  ...or opt to yell "Epee!" -- she's just that unpredic...