Duly deleted, Max and semi colon inserted to replace the comma in the first line.
Having not partaken in what I hear characterised on the radio this morning as 'Olympism' offerings in London, I am not sure how to respond to Spectator. Are you referring to Dame Elizabeth Murdoch perhaps?
Hoo roo,
Bill
On 15/08/2012, at 11:25 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> snap like. videoclip like
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> maybe delete 'when I'
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> Unfolds nicely to the final image.
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> I expect Patrick of RP to recoil and offer a further line:
> eg
> poked its rictus in self-defence and ran off.
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> M of RLPark
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> On 15/08/2012, at 8:12 AM, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> A sign - Epilogue
>>
>> When I walked down to inspect the sign the following morning,
>> sun sparkled from its plaque and I could see,
>> as I neared,
>> that it was a brand new steel pole,
>> inserted exactly in the old crater
>> and neatly pounded in.
>> Nay, it had been seamlessly, signlessly, installed.
>>
>> It was as though it had never been away.
>>
>> Of my righting branch,
>> there was no sign.
>>
>> But wait...
>> there, at the foot of the pole,
>> a white glint.
>> A bit of the broken branch?
>> No, the white object looked bigger...
>> and smaller.
>>
>> I waited for a car to pass, then crossed the road.
>> On my haunches, I gazed
>> at the intact rictus of a kangaroo skull.
>>
>> Bill Woottton
>> 15 August, 2012
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