Hi Philip,
Yeh, I'll go with this... and I'll wrap up well (lotsa woolly plullies) and
go for a long walk and try to work how how it all fits alongside the notions
of Quantum Mechanics the poet who got the grant explained was part of the
project too!
Bob
>From: Philip Burton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: rE Re: sheep and poetry
>Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:43:21 +0000
>
>Hi grasshopper, and Sally. A conspiracy theory, right? The sheep are still
>radioactive from Chenobyl, right? Wave Mechanics, Shroedingeret et al,
>stipulate that the observer changes the nature of the experiment by
>participating as an observer, right? So, the sheep are in fact poor poets
>dressed up in sheepskin, and, of course, paid in plastic washers by NWA.
>They are the REAL observers. They can read the words written on the other
>'sheep' but NOT the word enscribed on their own fleece. This creates a Wave
>Uncertainty Relation Dynamic in the threshold of time-space continuum
>allowing reliable observations to be made by unmanned geo-stationery
>(sic)poetry satellite. I hope this clarifies. Philip
>
>
>
>
>>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: sheep and poetry
>>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 03:00:45 -0000
>>
>>Sally,
>>I'm going to feed my dog Scrabble tiles and see what she shits...
>>Kind regards,
>> grasshopper
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 11:07 PM
>>Subject: Re: sheep and poetry
>>
>>
>>I think the idea of spraying sheep with words is quite balmy. Sally J
>>
>>
>> >From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>> >Subject: Re: sheep and poetry
>> >Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 22:40:03 +0000
>> >
>> >Havent got the article but they were on radio today and you will get the
>> >archive or the programme itself on bbc radio scotland website, which you
>> >will get thruhg a search engine.
>> >Our friendly local Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail was up in the biorders
>> >spraying words onto some poor longsuffering sheep. THe listeners were
>> >sending words in to add to their list. I sent wondering but they didnt
>>use
>> >it they used wandering.
>> >its Northern Arts, the arts organization for the North of England, that
>> >subbed the oringial scheme.
>> >bw
>> >SallyE
>> >
>
>
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