Much prefer this week's typo from you, Doug. The term may pass into parlance.
Bill
> On 14 Aug 2015, at 12:38 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I typed ‘sales’ I was sure, Bill, but there you go, my fingers or the corrections…?
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> Anyway, we do have ‘garage sales,’ but I don’t know about those ‘garage slews’…
>
> Still not sure of all that you do…
>
> \Doug
>> On Aug 12, 2015, at 3:49 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Doug. We will be 'garage slewing' (like that, new coinage to me) on Saturday week, followed the next week by hard rubbish collection.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 13 Aug 2015, at 12:58 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> Oddly on the mark, Bill. Even if I don’t know half of it. Here, many still hold ‘garage slew,’ at which, I assume,people pick up more suff while others get rid of it…
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Stuff sneaks up on you, squats, settles, millstones.
>>>> Shifting stuff, trudgesome, fraught with unpredictability.
>>>>
>>>> Madness cassette, worth £35 to some Pom I've never met.
>>>> INXS tape in a flip-top box wings its way to Belgium.
>>>>
>>>> Shintaro in purple tunic, brandishing sword left-handedly,
>>>> on creased cardboard card starts an eBay bidding frenzy.
>>>>
>>>> But do you reckon anybody'll take this comfy chair?
>>>> 27 views on Gumtree but no takers. Nor for the old fridge
>>>>
>>>> - still chills to the bone but who will travel, who heft?
>>>> Washing machine, top-loader, clarifies but will not entice.
>>>>
>>>> Nor can a solid queen bed attract prone potentiality.
>>>> Anti-capitalism thrives. Stuff, once it hits house, moulders.
>>>>
>>>> Only knick-knacks move. Hang on: a phone call -
>>>> Someone wants my analog TV - good for video games.
>>>>
>>>> What's a fair price for televisual retrocity. How's free
>>>> sound? Sounds good, he says. Finally, some vacancies
>>>>
>>>> opening up, carpet spaces clearing. A Chinese takes
>>>> a juicer and microwave for $100 and eyes off a water tank!
>>>>
>>>> Stuff comes in as light as a breeze, assumes its place.
>>>> Asked politely to leave, it sulks, limpets, looms.
>>>>
>>>> Stuff this stuff. Feel the stuffing knocked out of me.
>>>> At least redgum whittles down to comforting coals.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
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>>> Done in by creation itself.
>>>
>>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>>
>>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>>
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>
> Done in by creation itself.
>
> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>
> Robert Kroetsch.
>
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