thanks Bill will think one thought I had was that she was critical of him committing suicide -maybe On 21/11/2018 10:53, Bill Wootton wrote: > Patrick, I really like this and agree that absent-mindedly’ is a better > choice than ‘pedantically’. However would you consider removing lines two > and three? This could focus on that absent-mindedness. You could still > leave the title as ’But’. > > Bill > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 at 9:41 pm, Patrick McManus < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> BUT >> >> absent-mindedly >> but >> rather critically >> she corrected >> the spelling >> and >> punctuation >> of his suicide note >> before telephoning >> for the ambulance >> and police >> >> >> pmcmanus >> s384 >> I did think of using pedantically but absent-mindedly >> >> has that sense of being in a state of shock (maybe ) >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 >> > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1