Title text:
My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/
Wow, I wasn’t cultured enough to get the reference to William Carlos Williams. Frost, yes, of course.
Looking up the poem, I have certainly heard it before.
Edit: Markdown for Lemmy instances possibly fixed
Never heard of the guy (not American) so I thought this was how we learned about Randall Monroe’s carbon monoxide leak.
Markdown broke the formatting, here’s the proper version:
Mbin doesn’t require two spaces at the ends of consecutive lines. I was aware that Lemmy might, but I was also prefacing each line with a “>”, so I figured that would keep them separate.
Huh. It’s impressive how many slightly different markdown versions there are