> Hello again Gary,
                   Thanks for your comments on this one. Others have disliked the italics and I think they can go, also the `that´ which you mention. You raise an interesting point about actually reaching out rather than only thinking of it. I feel that the experience described here is all in the mind, there is no actual physical sensation of falling and for that reason I favoured `thought of´, but I can think it over still.


Best wishes,   Mike


> Lähettäjä: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
> Päiväys: 2004/02/24 ti PM 11:25:22 GMT+02:00
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> Aihe: Re: new sub: Brave New World
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> Mike, I do, but country, used to rope swings and such, twas not bothered for 
> long.  Instead tried to jump so the earth spun beneath me.
> 
> Thoughts
> 
> Do *you* remember, too, that moment (no italics)(the moment)
> in childhood when you first heard
> that the earth we stand on is spinning (no that or is )(spins
> incredibly fast as it hurtles
> through black space, and you thought (why not - and you reached out to grab 
> a tree - instead of only thinking of it)
> of reaching out, to hold on to a tree
> to stop yourself being hurled off?
> 
> And do you remember, *too*, (no italics)
> how when you felt safe with your feet
> on the ground and looked again
> at the old, familiar things
> you had to accomplish the tightrope feat
> of creating them all anew
> while keeping your eye on this knowledge?
> 
> Smiles.
> 
> Gary
> 
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