Thanks, Doug. Blue (or Blues) 2 may follow if I can get my hands (or put my foot on) the Gass.
Bill
> On 5 Oct 2013, at 1:17 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I like it more this way, Bill...
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> Then, again, in America you also find 'the blues'....
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> Doug
>> On 2013-10-04, at 5:29 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I see, Doug. Lest I be accused of further passivity, here goes one more time:
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>> Bill
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>> Blue
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>> Nothing blue is mowed.
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>> No food truly blue.
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>> We reserve blue for sky,
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>> jeans and, collectively,
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>> pockets of existential pain.
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>> Blue does not exist in Russia,
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>> only words for its shades.
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>> Sea is said to be blue
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>> but only in the deep
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>> and unstably so.
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>> Unmixed, pure blue
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>> falls between violet
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>> and green. Males mis
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>> -pick green from blue
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>> more than females do.
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>> Whole cultures don't share
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>> the western blue. Korean,
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>> Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
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>> have no separate words
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>> for green and blue.
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>> So deep in the Americas
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>> and in much of Asia
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>> blue means go
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>> and - slap my stanza -
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>> blue lawns get mowed.
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>> bw
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>> 4.10.13
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>>> On 04/10/2013, at 12:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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>>> You want me tl notice the 'is's, Bill? I tend not to like such passive constructions, & here too, a bit. But maybe the 'philosophizing' allows for a bit...
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>>> After the first one, you could drop them I suspect...
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>>> Doug
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>>>> On 2013-10-02, at 8:35 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Thanks, Doug. I have googled the Gass 'Blue' book. It looks fascinating. I will seek it out. Seems I have inadvertently strayed in to a can of worms, to mix my metaphors, which is another area on which I see Gass holds opinions.
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>>>> So my ises got past you, this time it is the are to which you object!
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>>> On 3 Oct 2013, at 3:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>>> 'are'? Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> you begin. I'd recommend trying to find William Gass's On Being Blue; a book length investigation...
>>>>>
>>>>> Doug
>>>>>> On 2013-10-01, at 3:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Blue
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing blue is mowed.
>>>>>> No food is truly blue.
>>>>>> which uou object!We reserve blue for sky,
>>>>>> jeans and, collectively,
>>>>>> pockets of existential pain.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is no blue in Russia,
>>>>>> only words for its shades.
>>>>>> Sea is said to be blue
>>>>>> but only in the deep
>>>>>> and unstably so.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pure blue is unmixed,
>>>>>> falls between violet
>>>>>> and green. Males mis
>>>>>> -pick green from blue
>>>>>> more than females do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whole cultures don't share
>>>>>> the western blue. Korean,
>>>>>> Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
>>>>>> have no separate words
>>>>>> for green and blue.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So deep in the Americas
>>>>>> and in much of Asia
>>>>>> blue means go
>>>>>> and - slap my stanza
>>>>>> blue lawns are mowed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bw
>>>>>> 30.09.13
>>>>>
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