Caught on the run, Lawrence, & such an uncanny bit of dialogue...
(mind you I remember some time ago watching a bunch of kids play out a whole film almost word for word rather than making their oown game up...).
Doug
On 2012-10-17, at 11:18 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Poor kids -reminds of my childhood -don't upset mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 17 October 2012 16:46
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> Subject: snap
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> Snap
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> Two boy children following mother.
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> One boy utters a few strange words
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> and the other grabs hold of him;
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> then, with a voice taken from films,
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> chant lectures on the seriousness
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> of the situation they now face,
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> as if they were soldiers, nothing
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> he says realistic,ending
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> �Now snap out of it�, pushing him
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Douglas Barbour
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