As was meant, L.
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On 2012-06-06, at 9:07 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> Thank you, taking my preferred meaning of "thick"
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> On Wed, June 6, 2012 17:05, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> Thick description, Lawrence, & that witty turn at the end. Neat.
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>> On 2012-06-06, at 7:21 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> Two flicks of light across a small shadow
>>> hardly smudging it, like a pen ticking on to a grubby fragment of
>>> cardboard, taking tally; while, behind them, at their source, where no
>>> hands have pressed with radiation, a pool of the stuff spilling off a
>>> wall down which pours, diagonally, thick sunshine from a complex but most
>>> unlikely shape of its own gleaming self, undeclarative. Above this,
>>> gloom, the top of it in depth although transparent; but no one sees
>>> much. No one looks round. The announcer appears
>>> not to be reading from a written script, speaking each word as a
>>> separable instance of things unknown, as if sampling them among alien
>>> objects. Some passengers stand about, flicking their accessories
>>> unacknowledged, perhaps thinking of grass.
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>>> -----
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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> Lawrence Upton
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> Goldsmiths, University of London
> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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