Thanks Max, Andrew, Pat. Yes, conditional opening, 'if' implied.
Bill
On Wednesday, 21 September 2016, Patrick McManus <
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> what action!!!did anyone just drown/sink??cheers |P
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> On 20/09/2016 23:56, Bill Wootton wrote:
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>> Throw everyone in the pool. They adopt
>> a stroke almost immediately. Most
>> freestyle it, face down, propelling from prone,
>> alternate overarming, scissor kicking,
>> Australian crawling, ice smooth repeaters:
>> nose, nipple, knackers, knee; leaning sideways
>> to draw unhurried breaths as they barrel
>> ahead, barely creating a ripple.
>> More casually, backstrokers reverse
>> themselves, lean back from supine positions,
>> thrusting faces, stomachs, genitals skywards,
>> expecting no impediments, like so
>> many half-animated, drifting logs.
>> Double-arming butterfliers launch themselves
>> from underwater, splay-grasping air then
>> fresh wet territory, bound-leggedly
>> threshing, projecting their exuberance.
>> Now there's us lot. Tentative foragers,
>> parting water in front of our noses,
>> groping forward, too soon sweeping backwards
>> to hips, legs frog-kicking, heads under dipped,
>> emerging, for a snatched breath, bent-backed,
>> and a fresh go at it. Maybe this time ...
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>> bw
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