Stephen thanks the blankets were great also quite a tree bole in the last
one
Cheers Patrick
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Sent: 17 January 2009 20:10
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Subject: Re: Eyeless in Gaza / blog link
Is anyone else having trouble with the link?
If so, Doug et al, go direct to my blog address. "Homeless Blankets - A
Winter Series" can found, as well, by scrolling down a few entries:
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
Looking forward, as always, to comments, critiques, etc.
Stephen Vincent
--- On Sat, 1/17/09, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Eyeless in Gaza
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Saturday, January 17, 2009, 10:19 AM
It seems we need a username & password, Stephen. Do you have one for
us? Or what?
Doug
On 17-Jan-09, at 11:07 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Can you imagine a land devastated, one without any remaining
> architecture? Can you imagine such a land composed and spoken
> entirely of
> sentences in a language so orderly, so lyric and so radiant that
> its refugees
> - though starving and otherwise defenseless - wander about
> (dancing, walking,
> loitering) without grief or resentment? "There are certain things
> impossible to take away," these citizens will insist. "The
> construction of poetry, its edification is not only our bread and
> water. It
> is our architecture."
>
> To the contrary, many among us, no matter the poetry, no matter
> the sentences, the songs - as though again 'Eyeless in Gaza'
> - come to nothing in wordless, appalled silence.
>
> As Israel destroys itself in horrific anger.
>
> from "Homeless Blankets - A Winter Series" on the blog,
> photographs et al, at:
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=704
>
Douglas Barbour
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Oh, goddamnit, we forgot the silent prayer.
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