Sounds like a record to me. Unless we take into account those who wrote
for publications which had asked them for work, so they would have no
time at all between....
Doug
On 17-Aug-05, at 11:36 AM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks, Peter, I'm glad of that.
>
> It's the third of five poems I want to write about Crichton, and at the
> moment the only one I'm really happy with, in terms of the
> language&transcription, is the first.
>
> (I've the title of Number Four -- "The Admirable Goes Winching" -- but
> I
> need to get my head around Thomas Urquhart's The Jewel before I start
> on
> that.)
>
> Hey, this is a bit ego-trippy, but I can't resist it. Slightly less
> than
> three hours after I finished the poem, and maybe two hours after I
> sent it
> to the list, I (independently) got a request to publish it.
>
> Is three hours from completed composition to magazine acceptance a
> record?
>
> (Admittedly, the magazine in question is the in-house journal of a
> seventeenth century re-enactment society, but hey, am I arguing?)
>
> The Instant Poet
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Ciccariello" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Historical Snap
>
>
>> I really enjoyed that Robin...and could hear it fine in my head.
>>
>> -Peter Ciccariello
>> ARTIST'S BLOG - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:17:43 +0100
>> Subject: Re: Historical Snap
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Judy.
>>
>> Actually, I wish I *could* read it aloud. I know how it sounds but
>> I'm
> not
>> happy with the orthography as it stands. I didn't want to go too
>> heavy on
> a
>> straight Glasgow transcription, but I'm not sure I haven't gone too
>> far
> the
>> other way here, sacrificing authenticity for (general)
>> intelligibility.
>>
>> ... problems, problems.
>>
>> The Admirably Sober Dormouse
>
>
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