Ah, I had not thought, Doug, of wind (pron. wined). You can understand, in
these firey regions why my first inclination is to think downwind.
Bill
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 3:22 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> That’s fine, Bill. I don’t do this kind of thing a lot, but have seen
> there try it, & these words come to mind with the middle word working as
> verb & noun, & suggestive, at least to me. Patrick’s little joke is a fun
> little game with it, & that’s fine too.
>
> I guess that sometimes one wants (I want) to see how much weight a few
> words might have: Pound’s (& others’) dictum that poetry be as concentrated
> as possible? Admittedly, the image of stars winding down may not be that
> meaningful, but my SF mind liked it.
>
> Doug
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> > On Jan 11, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I have looked at this over a few days now, Doug and still I am not
> finding
> > whatever you and others appear to. The bald words expected to carry the
> > weight of lines do not spark anything for me. Yet.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 4:27 am, Patrick McManus <
> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> do
> >>
> >> win
> >>
> >> star
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> haha P
> >>
> >> On 10/01/2020 16:57, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>> Thanks Sheila, Patrick, Andrew.
> >>>
> >>> As for that last, well…. But I am intrigued by what a few words can do
> >> more of, sort of…
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>>
> >>>> On Jan 10, 2020, at 1:48 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> "Now, write a paragraph on each."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 18:30, Patrick McManus <
> >>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> spaced out feel here -like it thanks P can see variations !!!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 08/01/2020 18:31, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >>>>>> down
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> wind
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> stars
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
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