Thanks for this, Millicent, a good remembering.
Doug
> On Feb 28, 2020, at 4:29 PM, Millicent Borges Accardi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Characters in their own stories
> Characters in their own stories intermix
> on avenues of danger, those not in
> the frame invisible.
> Now, and then, one
> flees from us, becoming unreadable
> from a point of view. More’s discernible
> of those who stay, skewing interpretation.We have fun at carnival, consuming that
> which might have grown fat, fearing death. That fear
> animates each. As we stir at our own fear.Some of us. Fragmentary godlike words
> collide in test chambers where exponents
> of lies and terror clamber round others,
> anthropomorphic inhumanity,
> clinging. Indolence provides the ground cover,
> overwhelming fences, bridges, thoroughfares.
> Stories get muddied, muddled; directions
> change in direction in their fat middles,
> adjectives turned eponyms. Apposition
> personalises fragmentarily.Time for Herod to ponder Truth. We must
> get moves on. Before we know, we’ll be back
> at beginnings, every sphere windfallen,
> every name half-lost; waiting
> Lawrence Upton
>
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> Apologies for interrupting as I have not been here for a long time. For those that have not heard, Lawrence Upton is dead. I have not got the energy to provide details but if you have energy there is a petition in place to preserve his works.
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> Please sign if you are so inclined
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Douglas Barbour
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https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Listen. If (UofAPress):
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch
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