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[fflo]

I'm going Marianne Moore on ya. Or on your ass? as in "Better watch it, or I'll go Marianne Moore on your ass!"?

Ol' MM and her triangular George Washington hat. What a kook. My kinda gal.

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[groovesinorbit]

I don't know of (or don't remember) her correspondence with Ford. What was that about?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Oooh, it was good stuff. They approached her for suggestions for the name of a new car they were going to be coming out with. The letters back and forth are grand. Very formal. And she comes up with some of the whackiest names.

I won't spoil the punchline of the tale by telling you what the car ends up being called, but I'll tell you this: that, too, is funny. The letters are definitely worth a read. They're collected in The Marianne Moore Reader, which I bet you've got in that library there at Wms. I think there may have been an separate volume of them published once, too.

[groovesinorbit]

Cool. I'll have to look for it.