I wouldn't dream of putting you off ice cream.
It's not a thing I greatly like myself though I have studied the behaviour
of Earth creatures and have been praised for my ice cream making
(The secret is to put lots of cream in with the cream)
Ta for the comment
Tomorrow I shall tell you what happened next
L
On Tue, November 1, 2011 15:26, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> You trying to put me off ice cream, Lawrence?
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> Perhaps I had to be there?
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> How you use the sentence in this one strikes a different note; & an
> interesting one...
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> Doug
> On 2011-11-01, at 9:14 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> a boar breaks out of a granite boulder a fish with a clown's mask pushes
>> through a block of ice cream the ice cream drives down the back of the
>> fish’s head and slithers and swims upstream
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>> a swan throws itself into the air, all water specks and arse
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>> 5 bread rolls on a surface
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>> a head turning and turning more degrees than circular, each facing timber
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>> hands throw out of a tree not linking
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>> a mouse splits into constituent parts bubble packed for ever
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Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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