It is an interesting thought, Bill, with the caveat/conundrum, that you cant have it without words…
Doug
> On Jul 5, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks Sheila, Andrew, Patrick. Not sure where poem leads. Don't want to
> suggest that action is all. Just occurred to me that it is such a human
> trait to name as in 'particular noun' things almost as a reflex, maybe in
> the process missing intrinsic qualities of things.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 at 5:19 PM, Patrick McManus <
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>> Hi Bill Grenfell has terrible resonances here in uk the tower block
>> disaster
>>
>> poets doing stuff without wording !
>>
>> cheers P
>>
>>
>> On 04/07/2017 23:21, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>> Why must we -
>>> traverse the Darling River,
>>> accept shade from a coolibah tree,
>>> chinwag with Henry at Grenfell?
>>>
>>> We could cross a river,
>>> sit under a tree,
>>> meet someone at a place.
>>> But why even that?
>>>
>>> Why the compulsion to designate?
>>> For efficiency's sake? aesthetics?
>>> Was there ever a time
>>> we just took things
>>>
>>> for what they were,
>>> did stuff,
>>> without
>>> wording?
>>>
>>> bw
>>
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