Thank you, Sheila. I think hilarity is by far the best that I can hope for
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On 7 March 2014 15:06, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Lawrence, I cannot help saying how hilarious I found this post. I think is
> speaks to our global situation in multiple ways.
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> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
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> > I didn't mean to be elliptical. I only fish on Scilly, keeping such
> tackle
> > as I own there. Well, there is a little box of gizmos I barely
> understand,
> > which I bought in Lidl (pronounce I believe Leedl if you are German), and
> > they are so interesting in their perspex top box that I have kept them as
> > an unintentional art work.
> >
> > I go for mackerel. I like mackerel. I settle for anything.
> >
> >
> > Mackerel tend to capitulate. They're not bright.
> >
> >
> > I chat to a chap whose name I have forgotten, but he's often there. Last
> > time I saw him, he was moaning that the weather was too poor to swim
> round
> > the island. It's about a mile by three quarters. So that's a lot of
> > swimming. The tide can rise 5m. There are 5 main currents. It's horrific.
> > He dives in and watches the fish and occasionally murders them for food.
> > This last time he said he'd forgotten he wasnt near a freezer so would I
> > like some.
> >
> >
> > My personal successes are much less. If I get them out the water they
> stay
> > out. I doubt many survive the shock; and the least I can do is eat them;
> > and they can be horribly wounded by the hook. That's it really.
> >
> >
> > Do ask if I'm not saying what you want; but I am pig-ignorant.... maybe
> > barnacle ignorant
> >
> >
> > On 5 March 2014 19:53, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > > yes
> > > yet the expansion in your comment on the whole situation, Lawrence, is
> so
> > > interesting that I wish more of it could be distributed in your
> > at-present
> > > for-me elliptical mini-evocation.
> > >
> > > M
> > >
> > > On 06/03/2014, at 4:15 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> > >
> > > > thank you, Doug
> > > > I am an intuitive fisherman who casts where the knowledgeable
> fisherman
> > > > kindly point out that I have no chance
> > > > I am often successful, but it upsets me, even though I only fish to
> > eat
> > > I
> > > > am much happier when the knowledgeable fishermen give me their cast
> > offs
> > > > I'm glad you think I made a poem out of that angst!
> > > > it makes the seas seem less incarnadine
> > > >
> > > > L
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 5 March 2014 16:55, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> A heavy landing, it feels like, Lawrence, & that's meant as praise,
> so
> > > >> much so quickly..
> > > >>
> > > >> Doug
> > > >> On Mar 5, 2014, at 4:22 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> >
> > > >> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >>> *landed fish*
> > > >>>
> > > >>> hearing
> > > >>>
> > > >>> the only sound
> > > >>>
> > > >>> collapsing
> > > >>>
> > > >>> through several orifices
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>>
> > > >>> a large slowness
> > > >>>
> > > >>> left unfinished
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Douglas Barbour
> > > >> [log in to unmask]
> > > >>
> > > >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> > > >> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> > > >>
> > > >> Latest books:
> > > >> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > > >> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
> > > >> Recording Dates
> > > >> (Rubicon Press)
> > > >>
> > > >> Swept snow, Li Po,
> > > >> by dawn's 40-watt moon
> > > >> to the road that hies to office
> > > >> away from home.
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