Yeah, if nothing else, Dave
at least Happy Birthday!
Doug
On 8-Feb-06, at 9:07 PM, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> No worry about getting back to this anon, David, and your post is a
> very good
> sentence, and I can relate to the 'too much again of the world' the
> 'intimitable
> 'English' style of it never happening in the first place' though, of
> course,
> everyone does notice, lol, and turns it into cash, of whatever
> currency, etc.
> And happy birthday!
>
> best,
>
> Rebecca
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 02:05:51 -0000
>> From: David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: Local Poetic Culture
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> I'm slow on the responses these last few days Rebecca as I and my
>> aides have
>> been busy on detective work, but now, as it's 1.40 in the morn here,
>> and
>> that we are now (again now, but for the first time this) within a
>> hair's
>> breath of the identity of the psycho-drug-dealer, who would cut me
>> up, bleed
>> me, skin me, because of an incident begat of a dodo, and have also
>> uncovered
>> stuff I wouldn't have imagined a week ago about local affairs in the
>> process, and too the ban on me at the Arts Centre is going to be
>> discreetly
>> lifted, in that inimitable 'English' style which consists of behaving
>> as if
>> it never happened in the first place and let's hope nobody notices,
>> but now,
>> as I said before, but repeat for a first breathing space, a stop-gap
>> just
>> gasped at, but now again, I feel much that can be said apropos your
>> post, I
>> like it, I can feel the too much-again of the world coming on in all
>> the
>> observations, the percepts, the sketches of individuals and
>> actualities,
>> that crowd, throng, bustle, jostle to be let in, that that that (like
>> that?!) swamps articulation in its recursive generations of tales to
>> tell,
>> that as that I am almost two hours into my year fifty-one, for it is
>> my
>> birthday and my sentence is more than half-done, it is perhaps
>> appropriate,
>> in lieu of future parentheses, that now I
>>
>> pause and take breath.
>>
>> All the Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> (all the above means is that I'll get back to you on this stuff anon,
>> time,
>> memory and concentration permitting!)
>>
>>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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than in –
no nearer here
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