Whoops, I meant 'active verb' anyway, Hal. Yeah, I did see it as an absolute phrase, but it didn't sit right with me. That's all - just me. Andrew On 02/09/07, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Try reading it as an absolute phrase, Andrew, disguised > as a sentence. > > Hal > > "Time is what keeps us waiting." > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html > > > On Sep 1, 2007, at 9:06 PM, andrew burke wrote: > > > The last 'sentence' seems to need an active sentence. > > > > Andrew > > > > On 02/09/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> You go, grrrl! > >> > >> > >> > >> --- Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> > >>> Sonnet: Late Arrivals > >>> > >>> Late to arrive, we found all the city's hotels to be > >>> full, > >>> a convention of Russian orthographists conducting > >>> their > >>> orgy-porgies everywhere, jamming the elevators, > >>> filling > >>> the bar stools, pinching the bottoms as they passed. > >>> > >>> Later we learned that to join their number, their > >>> union, > >>> their guild, all one need do was spell John > >>> Ashbery's name > >>> correctly and buy them all a beer. Almost as much > >>> fun > >>> as having Lyme disease, someone said. Sardonically. > >>> > >>> Of late, Tashkent has been really difficult to live > >>> in, what > >>> with all the rules governing matters as trivial as > >>> the proper > >>> disposal of bottles and bottle caps. Taxicabs > >>> (unmetered) > >>> full of unrivalled dignitaries armed to the teeth > >>> with the > >>> > >>> latest weaponry smuggled in from Turkmenistan and > >>> other > >>> blatant violators of worldwide nonproliferation > >>> agreements. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> Hal > >>> > >>> Halvard Johnson > >>> ================ > >>> [log in to unmask] > >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html > >>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > >>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > >>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org > >>> > >> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> _____________________________________________________________________ > >> _______________ > >> Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from > >> someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > >> http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 > >> > > > > > > -- > > Andrew > > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > > http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.inblogs.net/hispirits http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/