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Subject: Re: what I did
From: "Jacob W. Haller" <spog at jwgh.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:25:17 -0400
Ben Wolfson <wolfson at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
Two roads forked in a yellow wood, so I took it.1

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And I couldn't take both, as
I'm only me. I stood there and
looked down it, but I could only
see as far as I could, to where
it went into the underbrush
after it stopped.2

But nobody would go that way,
as it is too crowded,
so I took the other,
though that one was about as
crowded, and it's the same
time on both, right?3

But nobody was there that morning,
except that I was there, so I
stepped in my own footprints.
I won't go back unless I happen
to return for some reason.
I don't know what I'll say
until I've said it
but I might say at some point4

that two roads forked in a wood,
so I took it.5

-jwgh 

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Annotations

  1. In this post, I stole Ben Wolfson's idea and ran it into the ground. Ben took the first line from Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken ("Two roads diverged in a yellow wood") and combined it with a Yogi Berra quote ("When you come to a fork in the road, take it!").

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  2. This corresponds roughly to this part of the Robert Frost poem:

    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    No specific Yogi Berra references, but the general style (pointing out that the narrator could only go down one fork because there's only one of him and the self-contradictory '...went into the underbrush after it stopped') was supposed to be reminiscent of Yogi.

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  3. This corresponds roughly to this part of the Robert Frost poem:

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    Also, Yogi Berra once said, "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."

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  4. This corresponds roughly to this part of the Robert Frost poem:

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:

    "I won't go back again..." was inspired by such Yogi Berra sayings as "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him" and "You can observe a lot just by watchin'."

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  5. This corresponds roughly to this part of the Robert Frost poem:

    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

    The Yogi Berra reference is given above.

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