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I don't know what story you're telling, but I got that sig from John Ashbery's book, Where Shall I Wander. As for Stephen, did he have the same source? I don't think so. Timing is what matters then.Ashbery's book was published last year. So, ok, tell me a story. Candice --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Sorry Candice > > Unless I really read it wrong, Stephen told the > story about meeting the > man with the T-shirt, which I was referring to; as > for your sigs, one > of which he quoted, I remain in awe of them all, & > their range. > > Doug > On 22-Feb-07, at 11:43 AM, MC Ward wrote: > > > Pardon me, but Stephen didn't write the sig, I > did. > > > > > > > > --- Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > >> Great story, Stephen, & thanks for passing it > on.... > >> > >> Only in SF? > >> > >> Doug > >> On 21-Feb-07, at 6:15 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote: > >> > >>>> Oh, _that_ traveling salesman. And, enthused, I > >>> bought away from the > >>>> long procession of vowels in pajamas. > >>>> (John Ashbery) > >>> > >>> On the street on Sunday I encountered a slightly > >> drunk black man in a > >>> black > >>> t-shirt with a grid of twelve variably empty > black > >> squares among white > >>> squares with black block-shaped letters (D, N, > P, > >> X, etc). > >>> Under the grid - in white scripted letters - was > >> the query: > >>> > >>> Can You Sell Me A Vowel? > >>> > >>> Presumably, if he could 'buy' the right vowels, > >> the grid could be > >>> turned > >>> into 'real' words and there would be order in, > at > >> least, his universe > >>> and, > >>> perhaps by extension, ours! > >>> > >>> I asked him where got the great shirt. It looked > >> brand new. > >>> "I got it at some festival 10 years ago. Finally > >> decided to put it on > >>> today." > >>> > >>> I was tempted to buy the shirt off his back. But > >> he looked so great in > >>> it > >>> and I liked the idea of him continuing, I > assume, > >> to puzzle everybody > >>> on the > >>> street. Without the vowels, instead of order, > one > >> could imagine that > >>> the > >>> singular emptiness of the un-conjoined > consonants > >> gave 'reality' a > >>> certain > >>> edge. > >>> > >>> Stephen V > >>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > >>> Currently re-introducing the 'homeless blanket' > >> series. > >>> > >>> > >> Douglas Barbour > >> 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > >> Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > >> (780) 436 3320 > >> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > >> > >> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > >> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > >> > >> > >> Some speak of a return to nature -- > >> I wonder where they could have been? > >> > >> Frederick Sommer > >> > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > > _____________ > > It's here! Your new message! > > Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > > > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > > > > > Douglas Barbour > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 > (780) 436 3320 > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > > Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 > > > Some speak of a return to nature -- > I wonder where they could have been? > > Frederick Sommer > ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/