> Hello Bob,
            Many thanks for your comments on this one. Glad you enjoyed it.


Best wishes,   Mike



> Lähettäjä: Bob Cooper <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/04/05 ma PM 09:45:12 GMT+03:00
> Vastaanottaja: [log in to unmask]
> Aihe: Re: New sub: Ripples
> 
> Hi Mike,
> What a great read! So much fun! And I'm enjoying the subtle personal-to-me 
> irony that the words that appear new to me ain't just nouns (words 
> describing things - a la the Woolfy-drawers quote) but they're verbs and 
> adjectives too!
> ... I'm also remembering Keats's requested epitaph: "words writ on water" 
> which seems apposite to what's here, too.
> I'm also surprised I haven't come across water as a metaphor for language 
> (h'm, and vice versa...?) before. (Except for the words Keats wanted!) Have 
> you? It seems a natural, easy, step from one to the other. I'm jealous I 
> didn't find it! It's a canny association!
> Bob
> 
> In a message dated 04/05/2004 6:56:12 AM Central Daylight Time,
> >[log in to unmask] writes:
> >
> ><< Ripples
> >
> >  the light falls upon real objects now. Here are knives and forks. The 
> >world
> >is displayed, and we too, so that we can talk.
> >                          Virginia Woolf
> >
> >
> >  Language laps like water against its banks.
> >  Words that had lain dormant stir
> >  from their muddy bed, lift their crests
> >  and raise ripples on the surface.
> >
> >  They debouch into this wide, slow scene
> >  where light coruscates through willow leaves
> >  and over the aureate river.
> >
> >  A boat glides out from under the bridge,
> >  filled with a massive repose, and brushes
> >  through a crepitant curtain of branches
> >  into the heliotropic shade.
> >
> >  Through foliage some light leaks
> >  that also shines on ancient turf
> >  and porous, gravid buildings
> >  while under the arches, darkness seems
> >  almost as solid as stone
> >
> >  and the river murmurs something as it passes,
> >  `Yes, these things are here, they are real´.
> >
> 
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