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The Metrist at the Operetta By tuning somewhat low the second violins And somewhat high the first, the two-faced Viennese Attain the sound of sugar, just as, hurrying The second beat, they CPR three-quarter time. Exactitude is not a way to animate, And, although honesty may be a policy, It’s not a beat to dance to. Face it: in the arts It is the tricks that are the trade. The firm head snap That holds at bay a ballet dancer’s vertigo; Perspective (false perspective being no more false Than any); make-up and impersonation; trope. A metronome confirms clockmakers’ art, not this. 2 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...

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