Doug,
Two neurosurgeons independently diagnosed my particular lower back pain about 25 years ago. Since the 3 hour operation could leave me fully dependent on a wheelchair, I chose the other option: living with the pain. These days my best strategies include local application of a Thai concoction called "White Monkey Holding Peach Balm" followed by an ice pack till it becomes room temperature. I can't use the anti-inflammatory ibuprofen because it interacts with aspirin. Though the second line of my poem must have referred to Wittgenstein within the film when I "found" it, I'd speculate that at the same time it evokes painful situations in my life: when I'm away from my house without an icepack, the pain level increases, and I have to stop what I'm doing to return home and retrieve one of them.
Barry
On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 08:23:02 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Bary
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>I hope that anti-inflammatory gesture is working.
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>Small can be beautiful, (or beautifully enigmatic) & here it is…
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>Doug
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>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 7:07 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Doug and Andrew,
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>> That's all I wrote down during the 71 minute film. Unable to use the title to generate an acrostic. Yesterday I added the "?" and abandoned the possibility of any punctuation after the first line.
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>> Otherwise I've increased the amount of time at home during which I sit on or against an ice pack as an anti-inflammatory gesture.
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>> Barry
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>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:30:44 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> And a fascinating (& fascinatingly) short take, to that ‘ice’…
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>>> Doug
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>>>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 2:31 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Thanks for reminding me, Barry. A fascinating man.
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>>>> Andrew
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>>>> On 2 August 2018 at 06:32, Barry Alpert <
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>>>>> JARMAN's WITTGENSTEIN
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>>>>> What's the logical structure of this gesture
>>>>> still homesick for the ice?
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>>>>> Barry Alpert / Wash DC>>Rockville MD / 03-31-18 (4:00pm) > 08-01-18
>>>>> (6:12pm)
>>>>>
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