Like it, Doug, and praise it. (I like 'alter / ration' muchly.) A On 17 May 2012 00:45, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > to layer one colour > so subtly to tones > slightest changes > > a melody of slightest shifts > shifts the mind > to smallest alter > ration all that > > monochrome never > quite there > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Wednesdays' > > http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html > > The postliterate sensibility is offended by anything that isn’t > television, views with suspicion the compound sentence, the subordinate > clause, words of more than three syllables. The home and studio audiences > become accustomed to hearing voices swept clean of improvised literary > devices, downsized into data points, degraded into industrial-waste product. > > Lewis Lapham > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/