Sorry Candice
Unless I really read it wrong, Stephen told the story about meeting the
man with the T-shirt, which I was referring to; as for your sigs, one
of which he quoted, I remain in awe of them all, & their range.
Doug
On 22-Feb-07, at 11:43 AM, MC Ward wrote:
> Pardon me, but Stephen didn't write the sig, I did.
>
>
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> --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Great story, Stephen, & thanks for passing it on....
>>
>> Only in SF?
>>
>> Doug
>> On 21-Feb-07, at 6:15 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>
>>>> Oh, _that_ traveling salesman. And, enthused, I
>>> bought away from the
>>>> long procession of vowels in pajamas.
>>>> (John Ashbery)
>>>
>>> On the street on Sunday I encountered a slightly
>> drunk black man in a
>>> black
>>> t-shirt with a grid of twelve variably empty black
>> squares among white
>>> squares with black block-shaped letters (D, N, P,
>> X, etc).
>>> Under the grid - in white scripted letters - was
>> the query:
>>>
>>> Can You Sell Me A Vowel?
>>>
>>> Presumably, if he could 'buy' the right vowels,
>> the grid could be
>>> turned
>>> into 'real' words and there would be order in, at
>> least, his universe
>>> and,
>>> perhaps by extension, ours!
>>>
>>> I asked him where got the great shirt. It looked
>> brand new.
>>> "I got it at some festival 10 years ago. Finally
>> decided to put it on
>>> today."
>>>
>>> I was tempted to buy the shirt off his back. But
>> he looked so great in
>>> it
>>> and I liked the idea of him continuing, I assume,
>> to puzzle everybody
>>> on the
>>> street. Without the vowels, instead of order, one
>> could imagine that
>>> the
>>> singular emptiness of the un-conjoined consonants
>> gave 'reality' a
>>> certain
>>> edge.
>>>
>>> Stephen V
>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>>> Currently re-introducing the 'homeless blanket'
>> series.
>>>
>>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
>> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
>> (780) 436 3320
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>
>> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>>
>>
>> Some speak of a return to nature --
>> I wonder where they could have been?
>>
>> Frederick Sommer
>>
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Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
Some speak of a return to nature --
I wonder where they could have been?
Frederick Sommer
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