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Thank you, Sir I'm rushing - not quite rushing - working very hard to get to the end of the pieces I can imagine being publishable; so that I can turn to some other things for a while, go silent etc... and then look again and see if it is possible to pick it up... It's taken me over which is ok but it's getting a little destructive personally just now I nearly chirped up yesterday re JStor & then kept shtumm, not even time to do important things for me I'm glad you like it L On Fri, March 26, 2010 12:58, Robin Hamilton wrote: > This is developing into a really terrific sequence, Lawrence!!! > > > Robin > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:55 PM > Subject: I have a fire [Next door 17] > > > > "I could wish, when we were recovered, our conduct had been more > distinguished for charity and kindness in remembrance of the past calamity" > Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year > > > > We take on the roles that we have been given. > We must be helpful. These are dangerous times. > If the law were not upheld, we'd be lost; > there would be no community. It's cold. > > I have a fire. Not many have. Light it > for me; and share the warmth. I find it hard to strike a match to make a > flame, even to set the tinder in a dusty grate. > > My partner used to say that what matters > is how a person lives, what kind they are, he'd say. He quoted Hamlet and > made jokes. > > That isn't my way, after all. What counts > is money at the bank. Those who keep tally observe such things. The rulers > have their checks. > > > > -- > "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode > http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html > ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it > is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode] > > 'a song and a film' by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers > Forum > ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00 > > > "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages > free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc > > 'snap shots and video' by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum > ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00 > > > Lawrence Upton > AHRC Creative Research Fellow > Dept of Music > Goldsmiths, University of London > > -- "The desire to testify": interview with Chris Goode http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/desire-to-testify.html ["the fullest, or at least the broadest, account I've yet given of what it is I think I do and what questions underwrite it" Chris Goode] ‘a song and a film’ by Lawrence Upton -- Veer Publications / Writers Forum ISBN: 978-1-907088-05-6 A5 84 pages. 2009. £6.00 "water lines and other poems" by Lawrence Upton - Pdf_16x16 111 pages free download http://chalkeditions.co.cc ‘snap shots and video’ by Lawrence Upton -- Writers Forum ISBN: 978-1-84254-113-5 A5 52 pages. £6.00 Lawrence Upton AHRC Creative Research Fellow Dept of Music Goldsmiths, University of London