Dabbled in that renaissance thing for so long, nothing like rebirth in
sight, re-death more like it, ahimè!
Yours, faded
Jack Dor of Rheims
MC Ward wrote:
>You, Martin, are, as always, exceptional to the rule.
>But I wouldn't call you a dabbler--you're a
>renaissance man.
>
>Candice
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
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>>>
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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>>>Behalf Of MJ Walker
>>>Sent: 10 April 2007 20:08
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: Re: snapshot -- revision
>>>
>>>I am proud always to have been a dabbler - in life,
>>>
>>>
>>in music, in poetry,
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>>>in ballet (ah! who remembers my fluted
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>>demi-piranhas in
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>>>Schmidt-Cremoni's *Dragonballs*) & cooking (I
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>>cooked several people's
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>>>geese but they hardly noticed), not to mention
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>>self-abuse of several
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>>>kinds - et j'en oublie.
>>>mj
>>>
>>>MC Ward wrote:
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>>>>Hi Patrick and Laura,
>>>>
>>>>I think of a poetry "pro" as someone who writes
>>>>seriously as a vocation, while an amateur is a
>>>>
>>>>
>>dabbler
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>>>>in poetry. I have yet to see any dabblers on this
>>>>list.
>>>>
>>>>Candice
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>>--
>>A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well
>>as of husbandrie, and
>>not goe to plough: or of witches, and be none: or of
>>holinesse, and be flat
>>prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.
>>
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