> 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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