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 <
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> 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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> >Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> >Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> > ON THE LAKE
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> >stalk
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> >reeds
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> > Nelson Ball
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