ndrew, I think it is (your preference, I mean)
For me, it;'s an option and I have been fascinated for as long as I
can remember in the way that it affects me as reader, a way that I
cannot pin down. I remember at college a tutor seeking to explain a
poem being centred because it was a prayer; and there were those among
us who weren't having that and asked how it worked. The proposal was
withdrawn..
But it is used or has been in such contexts often. Something is going
on.
I was going to say to Doug that you get half each indent on each
side; but I don't think I got round to it. If I know anything, I
probably started writing and then found I was in the wrong editor!
(gmail rather than the small gang of self-justifying I T smugs out on
the east coast somewhere that I pay for web services) I waste a lot of
time that way.
But your comment, Andrew, may give me some clue to my question. I
reached for centring because it was a loop. It started, in notebook,
rough-edged one side like most verses. Then I began to think about
looping -- I am considering a whole set, like plates spinning on
sticks -- and then centering seemed obvious... so maybe it does in
some way affect one's sense of rhythm...
I wanted, I think, to reduce, what shall I call it?, linear rhythm
and have a sense of one thing tumbling after another, as in the way
that it can take a moment or two to pick up the base rhythm when one
comes in on a poem or song
and then it flips back to the beginning
course the poem itself has to work or all this becomes gadgets and
glitter, assuming there is anything in what I am saying anyway
Thanks for the thought. I shall mull on it. I have only the one loop
in this proposed set and it may stay that way. I just wanted to offer
a break from my domestics
For now I must return to finishing something with a deadline on it --
yesterday!
best
Lawrence
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Subject:Re: loop redux (but please imagine it is centred)
Ditto. I'm off centred positioning. It seems to have no 'rhythm'.
Just
my preference ... Andrew
On 17 January 2013 04:16, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Well, I actually liked the indents...
>
> Doug
> On 2013-01-16, at 2:33 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> LOOP
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>> the moment –
>> a subtle reversal
>> out of feeling and feeling
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>> that knowledge other
>> working against progress
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>> an uncontrolled slight
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>> most inconvenient
>> power muttered
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>> he was merely reporting his memory
>> when, of a second, he began to wish
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