I totally agree with Robin. I think it's remarkable.
Fwiw, I've pasted the sequence so far into one document and read it
through, which really shows how powerfully unsettling they are. It's
in that slightly alienated focus on small details, with everything
going on in the peripheral vision. They have all the urgency of
necessity. I know this stuff comes at a price, but wow.
xA
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you, Sir
>
> I'm rushing - not quite rushing - working very hard to get to the end of
> the pieces I can imagine being publishable; so that I can turn to some
> other things for a while, go silent etc... and then look again and see if
> it is possible to pick it up... It's taken me over which is ok but it's
> getting a little destructive personally just now
>
> I nearly chirped up yesterday re JStor & then kept shtumm, not even time
> to do important things for me
>
> I'm glad you like it
>
> L
>
> On Fri, March 26, 2010 12:58, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> This is developing into a really terrific sequence, Lawrence!!!
>>
>>
>> Robin
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:55 PM
>> Subject: I have a fire [Next door 17]
>>
>>
>>
>> "I could wish, when we were recovered, our conduct had been more
>> distinguished for charity and kindness in remembrance of the past calamity"
>> Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year
>>
>>
>>
>> We take on the roles that we have been given.
>> We must be helpful. These are dangerous times.
>> If the law were not upheld, we'd be lost;
>> there would be no community. It's cold.
>>
>> I have a fire. Not many have. Light it
>> for me; and share the warmth. I find it hard to strike a match to make a
>> flame, even to set the tinder in a dusty grate.
>>
>> My partner used to say that what matters
>> is how a person lives, what kind they are, he'd say. He quoted Hamlet and
>> made jokes.
>>
>> That isn't my way, after all. What counts
>> is money at the bank. Those who keep tally observe such things. The rulers
>> have their checks.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
>> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
>> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
>> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>>
>> 'a song and a film' by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers
>> Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>>
>>
>> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
>> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>>
>> 'snap shots and video' by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
>> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>>
>>
>> Lawrence Upton
>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>> Dept of Music
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode
> http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html
> ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it
> is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode]
>
> ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00
>
> "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages
> free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc
>
> ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum
> ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00
>
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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