May you be a model of humility. I think they wouldn't get it.
Mark
At 05:19 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
> > How about not "enhancing"--or piggybacking--on the allure of the already
> > wondrous and instead draping a landfill, or a favela, so as to create
> > beauty, and economic advantage, where few see either? Would that be too big
> > an imaginative leap for the happy pair, or would they be in danger of not
> > making as much money or as many headlines? How about draping an oil field?
> > Or a lifeless river? Or a battlefield? There are plenty to choose from.
> >
> > Mark
>en·hance (e˜n-ha˜ns')
>tr.v., -hanced, -hanc·ing, -hanc·es.
>
>1. To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
>
>I am sorry Mark but I must shy from evening consider the largeness of your
>vision of potential globally enhanced works - I am afraid I am back into the
>beauty of small things. WCW's plums in the fridge are so worn out from
>appearing in standard American Literature Anthologies, I have wrapped them
>over their white saucer in a slightly foggy Saran wrap - just enough to let
>the eye know they are still plums. People who come to my fridge compare this
>enviormental act of bringing a great poem back down to size as comparable to
>German trade shops who sold Indigo to Napoleon's soldiers with which to dye
>their white uniforms. The use of the dark dye helped reduce the sight of
>demoralizing blood stains from battles in which their comrades had been
>lost.
>
>I and my plums have yet to receive a visit from the lawyers of the WCW
>estate.
>
>Stephen V
>Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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