I liked this piece a bunch, too, Barry. & Synchronicity. I remember Robin Blaser writing in an essay somewhere to the effect that if a moth landed on your windowpane while you were writing a poem, that the moth should enter the actual poem in process. If a good friend passes away and you are writing an elegy and a humming bird is tapping its bill on your window (as happened to me once), "include, include". Of course, if you hear the voice of God, you may have other issues to consider!
Rushing towards LA,
Stephen V
--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Snap Spicer At Brighton Rock
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Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 9:44 AM
Thanks Doug. Curious what happens when synchronicity takes the place of intentionality
and/or calculation. "Causes" me to recall George Quasha telling me in the early
seventies that when one notices synchronicity within the context of one's writing activity,
that process is going well. That last example via David Chirot at the end of a month's
consideration startles me while still making a kind of conclusion to the project.
Barry
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:29:57 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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>Just brilliant, Barry, a 'catch' for sure, of which I think JS would
>approve.
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>Doug
>On 16-Dec-09, at 3:55 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
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>> SPICER PLAYED BY WYLIE WATSON IN BRIGHTON ROCK
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>> via Graham Greene’s script from directors John & Roy Boulting’s
>> adaptation
>> of his novel
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>Douglas Barbour
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