Can I please praise this mail and the opening up to thoughts and
associations that Rebecca endlessly offers?
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: Hi and little magazines
> Ah, I like this, Edmund,
>
> >perhaps: "sticks and stones may reach my bones but words will always
breach
> >me"
> except I like the sound of "sticks and stones may break my bones but
words
> will always breach me," that's a brilliant choice, "breach" with all of
its variant
> meanings, or perhaps its variant connotations, since it's an 'opening made
by
> breaking' 'the state of being ignored' 'an opening or gap' as in a
fortress wall,
> but also 'the act of breaking or of aiding another to break into or out
of", not
> just a rupture, split, but "an interruption or suspension of" the
continuance of
> the expected, "the action of the breaking of waves" a "creek" and "surf,
breakers"
> and the "leap of a whale out of the water," and also too with its
associations of
> difficult birth.
>
> so thanks, and yes, you're right about the refrain being the thinnest of
hopes in
> the playground,
>
> best,
>
> Rebecca
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 18:12:21 +0000
> >From: Edmund Hardy <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: Hi and little magazines
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> >This is at the heart of so much -
> >
> >>Like that playground refrain "sticks and stones may hurt my bones,
> >>but words will never hurt me" and yet it has always seemed to me they
do,
> >>embedding in the skin of feeling, though they have the power to touch in
> >>other
> >>ways as well, and it is often just that, some phrase that is like a
nexus
> >>of various
> >>elements.
> >
> >- and the playground refrain always felt like a thin hope against the
> >violence of bad words! It does seem, or it IS that words are tactile, or
> >they are part fleshy tunnel, part projectile.
> >
> >perhaps: "sticks and stones may reach my bones but words will always
breach
> >me"
> >
> >Edmund
>
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