Stylus, stylus...
Perhaps I need a bigger dictionary!
writes Bob who related the next line to a musical instrument, first, and so
thought of LPs and the little thing with the sapphire in the end of it...
Do you think others may not know how you intended the word to be read?
Bob
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: A River Transformed XII: Bob
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 18:11:19 -0700
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>The stylus no longer casts a shadow,
>the calliope is deaf.
>
>I can't make a link to what I've just read.
>And I'm puzzled by the word stylus. I've just read about cars in a previous
>poem, now am I to accept that a car driver/passenger is using a writing
>stylus? Or is it a stylus that belongs above a turntable and a vynil
>record?
>Help!
>Bob
>
>Bob, the unable to continue is the journey through these poems.
>
>A stylus is the vane in a sundial, a devise that must have a shadow to
>work.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Gary
>
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