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Quite right, Roger--though the poem was based on (drawn in part from) an apparently much earlier AP account in the online IHT. Hal "There is poetry in everything. That is the biggest argument against poetry." --Miroslav Holub Halvard Johnson ================ [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org On Sep 22, 2006, at 11:03 PM, Roger Collett wrote: > Basically, Hal was picking up on the following: > > "Twenty-three people died and 10 were injured when an elevated > magnetic train ploughed into a maintenance vehicle in north-western > Germany. " > > "In August, a fire broke out on a Transrapid elevated magnetic > train in Shanghai, adding to concerns about the safety of the > technology." > > Roger > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "andrew burke" > <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 3:41 AM > Subject: Re: "Maglev Sonnet" > > >> The BBC is not welcome in China so I can't read it, Roger. Sorry. >> >> Andre de Linfen >> >> >> On 23/09/06, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Not too sure about fun Andrew, >>> >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5370564.stm >>> >>> Roger >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "andrew burke" <[log in to unmask]> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]> >>> Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 2:33 AM >>> Subject: Re: "Maglev Sonnet" >>> >>> >>> > bloody great fun, Hal - thanks for the entertainment. I loved the >>> > image of a 'fire' in a sonnet - there's one in this one! a >>> creative >>> > flame oft times missing from many 'serious' attempts. >>> > >>> > I put my vote Fred's way. >>> > >>> > Andrew >>> > >>> > >>> >> > >>> >> > This is delightful, Hal, but I wish, no pun intended, it >>> ended with more >>> >> > of a bang -- "sonnet" reappearing as the last word seems >>> flat. Maybe >>> >> > something like "After last month's crash of the Shanghai >>> Vilannele, / >>> >> > This is another blow for magnetic levitation" [no hyphen]? >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Andrew >>> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >>> > http://www.bam.com.au/andrew >>> > -- >>> > This email has been verified as Virus free >>> > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net >>> > >>> >> >> >> -- >> Andrew >> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ >> http://www.bam.com.au/andrew >> -- >> This email has been verified as Virus free >> Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net