'to uphold'..., Bill.
Doug
On 2013-04-17, at 11:25 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> best, Doug?
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> On Thu, Apr 18th, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Do your best, Bill <g>.
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>> Doug
>> On 2013-04-16, at 2:24 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> US rap star Fifty Cent may have had an ancestor in St Martin: Fifty
>> Percent?
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>>> Fourth century Martin,
>>> later bishop of Tours,
>>> reputedly gave half of his cloak
>>> to a near-naked beggar at Amiens.
>>> Which half I wonder?
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>>> On awakening, he discovered
>>> it had been restored to wholeness.
>>> Beggar back to chilly I presume.
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>>> Martin's reconstructed cloak
>>> lived on as an alleged relic.
>>> At least one Frankish king,
>>> come the Middle Ages,
>>> carried it into battle with him;
>>> oaths were sworn on it.
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>>> By all that's cloaksome
>>> and wind-whipped,
>>> I swear ... to uphold
>>> the spritual thrust of
>>> Martin 's semi-gesture.
>>>
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recording Dates
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>> And still property is theft.
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Douglas Barbour
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Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
Recording Dates
(Rubicon Press)
Reserved books. Reserved land. Reserved flight.
And still property is theft.
Phyllis Webb
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