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Dave, As Patrick and I have both passed the two billion mark by around one hundred million or so seconds, passed (past) time becomes fairly irrelevant. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 9:19 AM Subject: Re: Cinese poem, very famous > Of course it was a great link Patrick, I posted it :) As for deliveries, I > think they only do takeaway or eat in situ. On other venerable matters, as > I know they concern you, at some point next Tuesday I shall be One Billion > Seven Hundred and Thirty Four Million and Four Hundred and Eighty Thousand > seconds old. How about that then eh? > > (notice I typed the numbers in old money, not as 1,734,480,000, I dislike > the devaluation of words) > > > > On 4 February 2010 17:00, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > >> Dave thanks for this link great site -of course as the crude member here I >> particularly enjoyed the adverts on the right from Chinese takeaways to >> Chinese love -do they deliver to Raynes Park?? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On >> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw >> Sent: 30 January 2010 16:31 >> To: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Cinese poem, very famous >> >> http://www.afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/wengu.php?l=Tangshi&no=224 >> >> I believe Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger wrote a book just on this >> >> -- >> David Bircumshaw >> "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ >> You say are poems" - DMeltzer >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2656 - Release Date: 01/29/10 >> 19:35:00 >> > > > > -- > David Bircumshaw > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ > You say are poems" - DMeltzer > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ >