Roger
you're victims of inflation
(y'know really we should put those American billions out to grass,
then we'll all feel a little younger, as well as begin to understand the
economy)
On 5 February 2010 10:48, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dave, As Patrick and I have both passed the two billion mark by around one
> hundred million or so seconds, passed (past) time becomes fairly irrelevant.
>
> Roger
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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> Subject: Re: Cinese poem, very famous
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> Of course it was a great link Patrick, I posted it :) As for deliveries,
>> I
>> think they only do takeaway or eat in situ. On other venerable matters,
>> as
>> I know they concern you, at some point next Tuesday I shall be One Billion
>> Seven Hundred and Thirty Four Million and Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand
>> seconds old. How about that then eh?
>>
>> (notice I typed the numbers in old money, not as 1,734,480,000, I dislike
>> the devaluation of words)
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4 February 2010 17:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
>> >wrote:
>>
>> Dave thanks for this link great site -of course as the crude member here I
>>> particularly enjoyed the adverts on the right from Chinese takeaways to
>>> Chinese love -do they deliver to Raynes Park??
>>>
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>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
>>> Sent: 30 January 2010 16:31
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>>> Subject: Cinese poem, very famous
>>>
>>> http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=224
>>>
>>> I believe Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger wrote a book just on this
>>>
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>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/
>> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
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