Nah even as a very old atheist -prayers and tooth fairies don't seem to
truck it :-)'apple pie in the sky' Joe Hill
And I do have a lot of teeth a -was it spike M said the white the grey the
black and brown 'British teeth!' (ps my memory not good
P
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 18 August 2011 10:45
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Subject: Re: Snap - Vincent
Is this advice because you are an *old atheist?
Would you, when you were just an atheist, have said _I would not rely on
prayers_?
L
On Thu, August 18, 2011 08:26, Patrick McManus wrote:
> I would not rely too much on prayers
> P old atheist
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> Sent: 17 August 2011 20:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Snap - Vincent
>
>
> Thanks all.
> Yes, David, that must be a mountain expedition prayer song, "The toe bone
> is connected to the heel bone, is connected to the ..." - a prayer that
> the connections hold!
>
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 8/17/11, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Snap - Vincent
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 12:09 PM
>
>
>> My prayer is that my body remains a reliable friend on the trail<
>>
>
> For once a prayer that's useful. I might borrow that now and again,
> Stephen.
>
>
> On 17 August 2011 19:05, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> When she said the bit about friends with the qualification, I heard
>> that Facebook ambiguity about the generous, suspect use of "Friends",
>> and as a way emphasising the guy was available to be a 'real' friend,
>> even more
> than
>> a 'friend'. Etc.
>>
>> I and my lady are about to go a 50 mile trek in the high Sierra. My
>> prayer is that my body remains a reliable friend on the trail. I am
>> practicing
> hard
>> these days with rocks in my backpack and walking sticks, etc. Well,
>> that
> is
>> a 'snap' aside!
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>>
>> --- On Wed, 8/17/11, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Snap - Vincent
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Wednesday, August 17, 2011, 10:31 AM
>>
>>
>> I like it too, & this whole line.
>>
>>
>> But would she say (did she say?) "He's cute. They are friends...'? I
>>
> would
>> have thought 'they're'....
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-08-17, at 10:12 AM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>
>>
>>> staccato trot, equally firm & deliberate:
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>
>>
>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>>
>>
>>
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_1
> 0.h
> tml
>>
>> It is natural to speak of your own weaknesses so winsomely they will
>> seem strengths, as if everyone else is inadequate if they do not have
>> your inadequacies.
>>
>> William H. Gass
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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