Ah Andrew
This all sounds familiar, assuming _scissors_ indicates cut up rather than
self-harm.
& I muttered something myself yesterday about habit.
After I had sent this morning's message, I wondered about my reference to
_meaning_
I do aim for it quite often. In the landscape poems, for instance; but
there are many kinds of meaning; and actually it drives me some way up the
wall when people ask: What does it mean? or: I don't know what it means?
(They mean the kind of meaning one expects of a training manual -- I saw a
tv recently -- yes! -- and an advertisement which slated recipe books as
being hard to follow and proposed its own recipe cards with little sachets
of herbs measured out. For those of us who ask: What do you mean by _a
teaspoon_? What do you mean by 5 grams?)
I seem to have slipped into Mr Tranter's tarpit
There's something holistic, I suppose, in being surprised by one's own
poem on the subject of surprise
L
On Wed, January 25, 2012 10:46, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Oh, yes, I often try to get out of my own pedestrian way when I write.
> I've
> tried drugs, I've tried scissors, I've tried Oulipo tricks, but too much
> logic still imposes itself on my further drafts. 'The tar pit of habit',
> as Tranter calls it, dulls the edge.
>
>
> As to meaning, I don't bother about such aims.
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 25 January 2012 16:54, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi Andrew
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what I mean either
>>
>>
>> When my copy came back to me, I did have a rather wobbly moment,
>> standing outside of myself a little, and thinking: What the hell's he
>> talking about?
>>
>> and yet
>>
>> maybe not quite recognising the meaning is a good sign
>>
>> that's going to be my story
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> L
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, January 25, 2012 08:26, Andrew Burke wrote:
>>
>>> Like it! Not sure what You meant, but I know what I got out of it! As
>>> so often. Do it again.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 25 January 2012 15:50, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The jaw drops
>>>> Brain falls
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hope tightens
>>>> A cartoon world closes frameless.
>>>> Weak glimmer in brief memory.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Page end.
>>>> Turn over. Do it again.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andrew
>>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
>>> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
>>> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
>>> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> http://www.mullamullapress.com/QWERTY
> BLUE ROSE enovel avail. at Amazon, Smashwords and
> http://etextpress.com/books.htm
>
>
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