> It's the opposite of expiration, Ken, as I learned once in
> Yugoslavia from a doctor who was checking me out
> in Rijeka once. Applying his stethoscope to my chest
> he'd command me to inhale by saying "Inspire," and
> then to exhale by saying "Expire." Needless to say,
> I later died laughing.
Hal, right thinking people probably warned you not to "aspire"
to be a writer in the former Yugoslavia. But, given the quality of
your exit - downward "respiring" as it was - appears not without humor
as you made your final descent into some, apparently, ticklish humus.
Stephen V
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Currently featuring an "in progress" series called, "Tenderly or
The Gertrude Improvs." Yes, come visit!
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> Hal
>
> "I can't understand it. I can't even understand
> the people who can understand it."
> --Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
>
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> On Mar 14, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
>> I have to make appointments to answer email that requires me to
>> react at
>> a level where I sound like I've thought about it.
>>
>> Alison, based on Adam Phillips' article, asks if inspiration is
>> rubbish.
>> I know it's not rubbish, but I don't know what it is.
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