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A word on the Says You! bluffing round caught my attention this week. Porlock was defined as interrupting an artist at work. That sounds like a very useful term in this age of telemarketers badgering artists who work at home. I looked it up and theres a story behind it on Wikipedia: The Person from Porlock was an unwelcome visitor to Samuel Taylor Coleridge during his composition of the poem Kubla Khan in 1797. Coleridge claimed to have perceived the entire course of the poem in a dream (possibly an opium-induced haze), but was interrupted by this visitor from Porlock while in the process of writing it. Kubla Khan, only 54 lines long, was never completed. Thus Person from Porlock, Man from Porlock, or just Porlock are literary allusions to unwanted intruders who disrupt inspired creativity.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:44:25 +0000

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