That's wonderful!
Hmmmmmm. Does three hours from completion to acceptance then give more or less than fifteen minutes of fame?
:)
-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 18:36:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Historical Snap
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/
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>
>
>
> -----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
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>
> 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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