We fall from or off a truck, don't we?
Candice
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time
(Longfellow)
--- Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> It intrigues me, Janet. That's all at present - that
> there's a
> difference. We 'fall from grace', we don't fall 'off
> grace'. And so on.
> It's these little lacunae in language that turn me
> on...
>
> caleb
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Janet Jackson
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2007 11:12 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Snap - the Factory
>
> I really enjoyed the language in this.
> Not sure what the big deal is about "from" vs "off",
> although
> it seems to be the point of the poem.
>
> Janet
>
> > The boy fell from the factory roof. Or off,
> singing as he went,
> ...
> > to fall from. Or off.
> >
> > Caleb Cluff
>
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> Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
> Poems at Proximity:
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>
> Our humanity is diminished when we have no mission
> bigger than ourselves.
> Bono
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