Of course, it wouldn't get the 'press,' but just the drawings, etc.,
the plans, without the actual work, would maybe be good. And I do like
the idea of going somewhere to enhance what really needs it, Mark. I
mean, it would be something to see them draping Fallujah....
Doug
On 1-Mar-05, at 3:30 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> 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
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
care to be more
precise about whatever
it is you are
saying, I said
Bill Manhire
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