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Thank you, Andrew. I can a whole new future for myself in gnomic utterance. I shall have to change my first name though: 'David' is just too ordinary. How about 'Eleazar Bircumshaw'? Thoughts anyone? 2008/5/10 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>: > Hey, Dave, I like that! Andrew > > 2008/5/10 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>: > >> I'd hazard, Doug, that if anyone could explain the term then there'd >> be no more need for it. >> >> The biologists say that genetically we are nearly identical >> individuals. It's in the space between 'nearly' and 'identical' that >> things like poetry happen. >> >> 2008/5/9 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>: >> > Some might argue that that's about as close to a definition as we can >> come, >> > Dave. >> > >> > I mean, do any of us really know how to 'explain' the term? >> > >> > Doug >> > On 8-May-08, at 11:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: >> > >> >> So the statement means 'something we cannot explain or agree upon a >> >> definition of deducts itself from the manner and actuality of the >> >> reporting of news' and by that statement we define 'something which >> >> cannot explain or agree upon' which we call poetry. >> > >> > Douglas Barbour >> > [log in to unmask] >> > >> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >> > >> > Latest books: >> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >> > Wednesdays' >> > >> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html >> > >> > Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well. >> > >> > Sir Kenneth Clark >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> David Bircumshaw >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk >> > > > > -- > Andrew > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/ > -- David Bircumshaw Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/ The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk