Well, thanks for that, Bill. The analogy worked too well I guess in my case....
Doug
On 2013-07-24, at 4:13 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Trying to spell it out in the end, Doug. Otherwise no one got it. I bought a new car. It's an automatic. All my previous cars have been stick shift manuals. So my left leg is now out to pasture, if you will, in the driving stakes. And it feels odd. Like some sort of betrayal almost. And I thought I would mask the entire affair in terms of political betrayal.
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> 'Limb' seemed easier to rhyme than 'leg' is all.
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> Bill
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> On 25/07/2013, at 1:12 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> For my lost Left Limb?
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>> I wonder, Bill (& what le to this anyway?).
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>> Doug
>> On 2013-07-23, at 4:14 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Retirement of the Left
>>> (a manual partnership dissolved)
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>>> Once a vital member
>>> now lolls on the slack,
>>> jabbing ineffectively
>>> or prancing on the mat.
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>>> In the automatic era
>>> the Left does not a thing.
>>> Services dispensed with,
>>> now the Right is king.
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>>> Acceleration's easy,
>>> Take-offs on a whim.
>>> But whither opportunity
>>> for my Left Limb?
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>>> bw
>>> 24.7.13
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Latest books:
Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
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Recording Dates
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Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
Guy Davenport
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