Ta. I dunno. I saw a man I didnt like (gut) business suit type looking
admiringly at himself in a piece of sheet metal. I found that it was a very
distorted image when I looked & Ive been mulling that for two weeks and
piddling around with verse to match it. I wasnt ready last week
L
On 7 August 2013 16:01, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I'd say it's very metallic throughout, Lawrence.
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> I'd say (& hear) 'a whole' ...?
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> Bent metal, bent vision?
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> Doug
> On 2013-08-07, at 6:36 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > We have a handsomeness of the sartorial kind
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> > although the clothing's invisible beyond an unturned collar;
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> > a concentrating brow as of one thinking
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> > maybe in a quiet place or garden which leads out
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> > from itself, and down and round to effect
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> > an whole transfiguration look
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> > as in side mirrors
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> > and produce the suffering face of Christ. One sees,
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> > at first, a single eye, and perhaps just
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> > one nostril; the mouth
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> > a reef in a wide and shallow sea,
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> > a separate ear; and then the complement:
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> > possession and the looks are gone;
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> > all is known as delusion
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