cheers Bill some get the same trouble with women (not me haha)
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Subject: Re: Small world
Thanks, Andrew. I don’t hate dogs. They just used to freak me out.
Bill
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 4:13 pm, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Yep, much more betterer, Bill,
But I love dogs - all dogs - It might be because I had a playmate when I
was tiny. My Indonesian daughter in law HATES dogs, which can cause
problems ...
Andrew
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 09:59, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Thanks again, Sheila.
Bill
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 12:49 pm, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Thanks, Sheila.
I am aware that Doug might be right about redundancies so I have
revamped
as follows.
Small world (2)
We look at the world once, in childhood
The rest is memory
– Louise Gluck
Primary school seemed so HUGE then. How can you be sure anything is
EVER
its real size?
– David Mitchell
Bailed up by the quick-fire barks
of a black and white dog
bursting towards me
bouncing with hostility
I struggle to clamber up the back doorstep
– the only available refuge
so high up
Its up-ness all that matters
Panning back
inside this memory frame
the unpaved yard appears
the chooks somewhere near
the concrete step
dwarfing the boy
unable to reach
the door knob
even if standing up were possible
At the time no frame
just present tense
Stuff just happens
to you and around you
when you are small
The dog episode
just retrievable enough
to form a slim anecdote
and a lifetime's phobia
bw
16.11.20
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 10:05 am, Sheila Murphy <
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wrote:
Boy, can I ever relate to what you do here, Bill. Having many of the
same
feelings. Particularly positioning early perception as you do.
Thanks! Sheila
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:23 PM Bill Wootton <
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Dead right I don’t, Doug. But I shared a house with someone in my
20s
who
had a Rottweiler pup, the runt of the litter. As it grew, my phobia
shrank
and now I am largely OK, at least with non-barking dogs.
As far as redundancies, I already pared back considerably to avoid
explicating Gluck’s observation but I will look again.
Bill
On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 9:06 am, Douglas Barbour <
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I’m guessing you don’t have a dog, Bill. You certainly get across
teh
hugeness of it all perhaps with a few redundancies, but it gives
us
a
memory check (cheque) for sure.
Doug
On Nov 17, 2020, at 1:57 PM, Bill Wootton <
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We look at the world once, in childhood
The rest is memory
– Louise Gluck
Primary school seemed so HUGE then. How can you be sure anything
is
EVER
its real size?
– David Mitchell
Under attack -
get away get away
A barking
black and white dog
bursts forward open-mouthed
front paws ploughing at the ground
Struggle to clamber up the step
– the only available refuge
so high up
Dim possibility
of being bitten
but more
just want away
from abrupt
angry-sounding
quick-firing loudness
See the scene now
in a memory frame
Pan back -
there, the unpaved yard
the chooks somewhere near
the massive - concrete? - step
– the way up to the back door
from the back yard
Too short to reach
the door knob
even if standing up were possible
At the time no frame
just present tense –
bailed up by the bark
What size that step?
A vast plateau?
Its up-ness all that mattered
Stuff just happens
to you and around you
when you are small
The dog episode
just retrievable enough
to form a slim anecdote
and a lifetime's phobia
bw
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