so nothing substantive to add ...
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:26 PM, David Bircumshaw
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> Roger day wrote : >I'm interested in tomorrow, not propping up the past<
>
> Bloody hell, mate, you want to watch it, making phrases like that you
> could end up working for an equivalent across-the-barriers to the
> Daily Mail, or being a politician's speech-writer.
>
> It's almost a passport to the Village of the Damned, formerly known as
> Fleet Street.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
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>
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> 2008/8/29 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>:
>> For all I'm concerned, they could let this little lot slip into time's
>> sweet amnesia:
>>
>> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1050408/Satnav-robbing-rich-heritage-warns-map-expert.html
>>
>> and I'd be very happy.
>>
>> I'm interested in tomorrow, not propping up the past. I guess that's
>> where choosing words comes into it. I used to like Heaney and his
>> choice of words, espeicially his older ones ... but there's the rub.
>> What are you doing when you resurrect the past like this? OTOH, are
>> you preserving it or carrying it forward into the future? Preservation
>> for preservation's sake seems to me to be wrong. And which past do you
>> select ... the Daily Mail ain't interested in any past I can
>> recognise.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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