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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social

Is this the greatest poetic ‘ah’.

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aug 14, 2025, 5:54 pm • 18 1

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Dan Jenks @dantjenks.bsky.social

Lovely. Thanks for the reminder about great this is. I think the twentieth century modernism killed off those exclamations - Whitman, Dickinson, GMH and plenty of others loved an ejaculatory ah - probably influenced by Baudelaire and his followers, I’m guessing. Ah what a shame to see it pass.

aug 14, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view