You got it Bill; Barry, you make me smarter than I am, I think…
Doug
> On Sep 27, 2019, at 4:22 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> A riddle all right, Barry, Doug. Maybe not the lettering, the words? 13 of
> them: 4, 2, 3, 1, 3. This after I sought an acrostic and thought to see a
> sort of ‘still’ anagram but no - 2 i’s, not 2 l’s.
> Ah, now I have it: an in-line acrostic or whatever the tech term is.
> t h e m i n i m a l s e t
>
> Bill
>
> On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 4:14 am, Barry Alpert <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the "prompt", Doug. I can't quite name or identify your
>> "formal constraint" but being aware of Georges Perec's novel without the
>> letter "e", A VOID, I cannot help but notice 5 appearances of "e" in your
>> first line. Then only one appearance of "e" in each of the next 3 lines,
>> all at the end of a word, followed by 4 appearances in the last line,
>> though not in the last word of the last line. Each of the vowels appear,
>> including even "y" if one wants to make an exception for that letter.
>> Still, I can't "name" your "constraint" on the basis of that evidence. Can
>> I request another hint? Barry
>>
>> On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:18:40 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks all; it stayed short because of a formal constraint I was hoping
>> Barry might notice. Still had to find the words….
>>>
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:01 PM, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Oh, how welcome this is, Doug. I will keep practicing what this
>> beautiful
>>>> passage suggests. It involves striving toward an ideal. Very crystalline
>>>> and fluid at once. Sheila
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:21 AM Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> take heed each moment
>>>>> invoke now
>>>>> inhabit minute acts
>>>>> live
>>>>> see every thing
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
Douglas Barbour
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