I learn so much by eavesdropping on you guys! Thanks. I read 'yarrow' as
'yarrow' - Now I'm off to google my morning away <g>
Andrew
On 23/02/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks, Candice. Though until two minutes ago, I was completely unaware
> of
> Paul Muldoon's long poem "Yarrow". I imagine that Cage, posthumously,
> would be more intrigued by the cryptographically secure pseudorandom
> number
> generator, the "Yarrow algorithm". Barry
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> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:27:59 -0800, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >I like this poem, particularly the allusion to Muldoon
> >with "yarrow."
> >
> >Candice
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> >
> >--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> DONALD DAVIE & JOHN CAGE TALK SHOP IN HEAVEN
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> >>
> >> Structures gift ideas.
> >> "You can jolt
> >> aleatory ale from heaven,"
> >> Donald Davie hums,
> >> "You have omitted a
> >> house alembic alexandrine,"
> >> John Cage never went so far as to say,
> >> "Damn the attractiveness!"
> >>
> >> Very nice lyrical deadlock.
> >> We threw yarrow
> >> before expecting to settle down,
> >> then, under the influence,
> >> actively determine what
> >> we would actually design.
> >> "Heaven help us--an amplified throat
> >> swallowing a glass of water whilst . . . "
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Andrew
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