Hello Arthur,
I enjoyed this very much. The combination of elements in the different sections works extremely well together IMHO and I liked the style of writing in the original sections very much. There was only one point where I thought to myself `If this was mine I would try to work on this bit´ and that was S6 in Section 4, the repetition here did not work so well for me. I hope this is useful.
Best wishes, Mike
> Lähettäjä: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2003/11/09 su PM 09:18:58 GMT+02:00
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> Aihe: New sub : Missions
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> Missions
> 1)
> We drink our coffee in the Square,
> talk quietly in the warm November sun,
> watch shadows waver over the cobbles;
> the yellow tower, the pigeon-cluttered tree;
> the hot sax and black fedora's
> last performance of the season;
> the meander and mix of folk;
> the warbling Chaplin's
> battered bowler and biscuit tin;
> the shades of the pusher
> as he drifts from sale to sale;
> the beggar knelt in new trainers
> at the mouth of the tunnel that leads to the shore,
> and beyond it all the wind-piled sea
> frets and spumes along the honey-coloured cliffs.
>
> Albufiera, November 4th 2003
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> 2)
> A morte por afogumenta e rapido e silencio.
>
> Death by drowning is swift and silent. Trans.
>
> Message, above a picture of a teddy
> floating face down, in water
> on the packet containing a sugar portion
> in my saucer, slightly stained
> and moist with spilt coffee.
> Nov. 4th 2003
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>
>
> 3)
> Far below the ocean's surface, resting on the seabed off the Portuguese coast are Spanish, Portuguese, and British ships that sank during the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration (15th-18th centuries) is a period of great adventure and discovery, where people traveled across the oceans in search of new lands, treasures, goods and trade routes.
> Extract from Ocean Technology Foundation, University of Connecticut, website.
> Available here: http://www.oceantechnology.org/semapp.html
>
>
> 4)
>
> The dazzle on the sea,
> the glittering paving of the waves
> beckoned like an open road.
>
> Men guessed,
> wondered at wide horizons,
> listened to rumors in the market,
>
> on the quayside,
> in the tabernas
> where tales that only wine can tell
>
> roused the pits of them,
> charged the blood,
> fired the fading eye
>
> to see the places that sent them
> whispers of spiced breezes
> from the fevered South;
>
> the thirst for something other,
> something more than,
> something different,
>
> to try
> the paltry limits
> of their time and place.
>
> They dared to dream
> what winds might bulge
> their tall lateens
>
> what seas might pearl
> abaft their tilting caravels
> as they plied the sea- roads;
>
> and dreamed to dare to know
> the pitch of stomach
> at new landfalls,
>
> the catch of breath
> as galaxies unfurled,
> luminesced,
>
> swift and silent
> beneath their shining keel.
> Reading Room, Elulia Apartmenta, Praia da Oura,
> Nov.5th 2003
>
> 5)
> Voyager at 90 AU
> The Voyager journey of discovery continues. After traveling through space for more than 26 years, Voyager 1 is approaching a new milestone. On November 5, 2003, the spacecraft will be 90 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. 90 AU is the equivalent of about 8.4 billion miles or 13.5 billion kilometers. It is the only spacecraft to have made measurements in the solar wind from such a great distance from the source of the dynamic solar environment.
> ...Voyager 1 is in a region unlike any encountered in its 26 years of exploration. the approach to the termination shock...on November 5, 2003.
> Extract from NASA site available here: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar.html
>
> Computer monitor screen, Reading Room, Elulia Apartmenta.
> Nov. 5th 2003
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