Boy, can I ever relate to what you do here, Bill. Having many of the same
feelings. Particularly positioning early perception as you do.
Thanks! Sheila
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:23 PM Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Dead right I don’t, Doug. But I shared a house with someone in my 20s who
> had a Rottweiler pup, the runt of the litter. As it grew, my phobia shrank
> and now I am largely OK, at least with non-barking dogs.
>
> As far as redundancies, I already pared back considerably to avoid
> explicating Gluck’s observation but I will look again.
>
> Bill
>
> On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 9:06 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > I’m guessing you don’t have a dog, Bill. You certainly get across teh
> > hugeness of it all perhaps with a few redundancies, but it gives us a
> > memory check (cheque) for sure.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> > > On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > We look at the world once, in childhood
> > >
> > > The rest is memory
> > >
> > > – Louise Gluck
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Primary school seemed so HUGE then. How can you be sure anything is
> EVER
> > > its real size?
> > >
> > > – David Mitchell
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Under attack -
> > >
> > > get away get away
> > >
> > > A barking
> > >
> > > black and white dog
> > >
> > > bursts forward open-mouthed
> > >
> > > front paws ploughing at the ground
> > >
> > >
> > > Struggle to clamber up the step
> > >
> > > – the only available refuge
> > >
> > > so high up
> > >
> > >
> > > Dim possibility
> > >
> > > of being bitten
> > >
> > > but more
> > >
> > > just want away
> > >
> > > from abrupt
> > >
> > > angry-sounding
> > >
> > > quick-firing loudness
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > See the scene now
> > >
> > > in a memory frame
> > >
> > > Pan back -
> > >
> > > there, the unpaved yard
> > >
> > > the chooks somewhere near
> > >
> > > the massive - concrete? - step
> > >
> > > – the way up to the back door
> > >
> > > from the back yard
> > >
> > > Too short to reach
> > >
> > > the door knob
> > >
> > > even if standing up were possible
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > At the time no frame
> > >
> > > just present tense –
> > >
> > > bailed up by the bark
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What size that step?
> > >
> > > A vast plateau?
> > >
> > > Its up-ness all that mattered
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Stuff just happens
> > >
> > > to you and around you
> > >
> > > when you are small
> > >
> > > The dog episode
> > >
> > > just retrievable enough
> > >
> > > to form a slim anecdote
> > >
> > > and a lifetime's phobia
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > bw
> > >
> >
> > 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):
> >
> >
> > There was the usual amount of corruption, intimidation,
> > and rioting.
> >
> > Sir Charles Petrie
> >
> >
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