Hey I was rather smitten with the 'actress gallery'left side of page wow!
now that's more like it -patrick
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Sent: 05 April 2005 22:47
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Subject: Re: Poetry is better for the brain
Here's another (via Jilly Dybka's Poetry Hut) :
http://news.newkerala.com/health-news-india/?action=fullnews&id=93653
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From: Trevor Joyce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 10:51:01 +0100
Subject: Re: Poetry is better for the brain
Here's the source:
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=352752005
On 4 Apr 2005, at 22:20, Pierre Joris wrote:
> an old friend sent this on, but forgot to give the source:
>
> If literature is food for the mind, then a poem is a banquet,
> scientists say.
>
> According to psychologists at Scotland's Dundee and St. Andrews
> universities, poetry exercises the mind more than a novel since the
> former guaranteed far more eye movement associated with deeper thought,
> reported the daily Scotsman.
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