Sorry if I've confused authors here. (Too many
tail-dragging posts!)
Candice
--- MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Barry, clever indeed that transposed/flick-knifed
> severing of letters, which can continue
> indefinitely,
> it seems to me. Such as (alternatively or
> complementarily):
>
> champaig
> neat
> 'cause
> ic i ic
>
> ("ic" is after all "I" in Anglo-Saxon, and those
> guys
> knew how to party!)
>
> Candice
>
> --- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Kasper,
> >
> > Thanks for the insightful reading. My visit to
> > Suburban Hospital on
> > Wednesday did distract me from revising the
> > completely different text I had
> > intended to post, though I wasn't ill. The
> previous
> > week I had been
> > afflicted by a variety of digestive system issues,
> > but resisted suggestions
> > that I go to the emergency room. So with
> "hospital"
> > forcing itself upon my
> > attention, I did treat words which came to my
> > attention by slicing off the
> > first and last letters, after the example of Peter
> > Riley. But I'm not
> > treating one particular text. The source of the
> > second line could have
> > been "heatco", while the third was originally
> > "nausea", though "caused"
> > makes a certain amount of sense as well. "Sick"
> was
> > the source of the
> > fourth line, while I believe the solo "i" of the
> > fifth line was originally
> > a whole line of "i's". Or was it "vip"?
> >
> > Barry
> >
> > On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:42:45 +0300, kasper salonen
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >this seems very clever: it appears to express the
> > gradual
> > >disintegration of logic &/or the capacity for
> > speech when in an
> > >untoward state (drunk, alcohol-poisoned..). I see
> > HOSPITAL in the
> > >title, CHAMPAGNE in the first line, CAUSED in the
> > third.. the rest are
> > >harder to unravel. but that's the fun. good stuff
> > Barry
> > >
> > >KS
> > >
> > >On 17/05/07, Barry Alpert
> <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >> OSPITA
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> hampagn
> > >> eatc
> > >> ause
> > >> ic
> > >> i
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 5-17-07
> > (10:14 AM)
> > >>
> >
>
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