David thanks now I am clear and it looks intersting backwards and its on
google hope the flu passes and you will be your radiant self again!
what's this I see on google only one david bircumshaw an endangered species
316 ref what was this I tried to find about being turned down for a
bishop??great clothes too!
bests patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>; "Britpo"
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: Fw: The Yad
> Correction to my last, Patrick, I being somewhat woozy after a bout of
flu, the following shd read:
>
>
> >and an equivalent is employed (once I believe) in the Acts of the
Apostles and in the Johannine gospel<
>
> those latter of course being extant in Greek not Hebrew.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
> & Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: The Yad
>
>
> >not what it says in google??patrick jewish museum??<
>
> Anglicised form of 'Yahad', Patrick, which I understand is the usual
transliteration. I opted for that because a) the medial sound
> is difficult in English b) I didn't want the term to sound Christian or
1st century AD Jewish apocalyptic specific. The term's used
> in the Qumran scrolls and (once I believe) in the Acts of the Apostles and
in the Johannine gospel and means something like
> 'communion' or 'union' or 'the way' and in it is this latter sense I
wanted to transport the term into the poem, particularly being
> in mind of its non-Western associations (as in Taoism). I wanted it to
feel like an invented word too, something that was too
> transparent to explanation would not be the right word.
>
> All the Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
> & Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 10:48 PM
> Subject: Re: The Yad
>
>
> not what it says in google??patrick jewish museum??
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: david.bircumshaw
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:18 PM
> Subject: The Yad
>
>
>
> 111 ad inf.
>
>
> Definitions of The Yad vary, for some it is written on car-number-plates
in cryptic
> scripts and in the spaces between invisible hyphens, for others it the
sudden scroll
> unscrolling scrawl of an atrophied sense, like that of smell, for
instance, which as is
> well-known is a reduced faculty in humans, and often confused with
precognition,
> unlike the case of our cousins gorilla gorilla or pan troglodytes,
despite the products
> and marketing of ICI and Chanel et al. It can be
>
> very silly, like that joke we both know, for indeed, as is said, in much
wisdom lies
> much folly, and verser-vicer. Etcetera, ta-rum. It can be plangent,
plaintive, like that
> tune we all know by Bach (yes, that one, the one that makes us sad to be
happy, happy
> to be sad) or one can find it in reflection, beyond the mirror's morning
call, on, say,
> that in Mumbai or Calcutta the homeless have to pay to sleep on the
night-streets,
> protection rackets run pavement space (and we think we're hard done by,
eh?) or it
> can be Crashaw calling Love, thou art absolute sole or
>
> something otherwise again. Like that bend in the road, yes, the lane's
curve, where the
> accidents never happen. Or maybe do. The way that water writes. The
flow. The
>
> never-shall-be-falling-again-risen-found-it-is, the
>
> Yaoummm, I like that she said, touch me there again.
>
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
> & Painting Without Numbers
>
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>
>
>
>
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