OMG. You're quite right, Doug. Max, glad you found yourself.
On Tuesday, January 12, 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> while enjoying the sequence in maximal ways
>
> I found myself deleting the word difference and trying out distance -
>
> I felt the slightly more metaphorical feel of ‘distance'
>
> helped me along and staved off the hovering boredom a bit longer.
>
> Boredom is scarcely the word - the threat of exhaustion as each line made
> big demands...
>
> Either way I had a strong sense of a nimble mental weightlifter juggling
> worlds…
>
> Max
>
> On Jan 12, 2016, at 9:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
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> > The difference between difference and differance is minimal
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Barbour
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:15 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > Subject: Re: Litany
> >
> > Ha: depends on how you measure it, Hal….
> >
> > Doug
> >> On Jan 11, 2016, at 1:04 PM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> *Litany (n. a tedious recital or repetitive series)*
> >>
> >>
> >> The difference between Spielberg and Lucas is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between sunshine and shadow is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between Ahab and Moby-Dick is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between Sunday and Monday is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between health and illness is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between one side and the other is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between living and dying is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between New Jersey and New York is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between toro and torero is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between maximum and minimum is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between inside and outside is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between waking and sleeping is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between minuend and subtrahend is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between Pluto and Mercury is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between all and nothing is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between Dickinson and Whitman is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between cube and sphere is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between red wine and white is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between Spanish and English is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between war and peace is minimal.
> >>
> >> The difference between minimal and maximal is minimal.
> >>
> >>
> >> As always, serving the tristate area.
> >>
> >> Halvard Johnson
> >> ================
> >>
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> >
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> >> <
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> >
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> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 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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