Barry, clever indeed that transposed/flick-knifed
severing of letters, which can continue indefinitely,
it seems to me. Such as (alternatively or
complementarily):
champaig
neat
'cause
ic i ic
("ic" is after all "I" in Anglo-Saxon, and those guys
knew how to party!)
Candice
--- Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Kasper,
>
> Thanks for the insightful reading. My visit to
> Suburban Hospital on
> Wednesday did distract me from revising the
> completely different text I had
> intended to post, though I wasn't ill. The previous
> week I had been
> afflicted by a variety of digestive system issues,
> but resisted suggestions
> that I go to the emergency room. So with "hospital"
> forcing itself upon my
> attention, I did treat words which came to my
> attention by slicing off the
> first and last letters, after the example of Peter
> Riley. But I'm not
> treating one particular text. The source of the
> second line could have
> been "heatco", while the third was originally
> "nausea", though "caused"
> makes a certain amount of sense as well. "Sick" was
> the source of the
> fourth line, while I believe the solo "i" of the
> fifth line was originally
> a whole line of "i's". Or was it "vip"?
>
> Barry
>
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:42:45 +0300, kasper salonen
> <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >this seems very clever: it appears to express the
> gradual
> >disintegration of logic &/or the capacity for
> speech when in an
> >untoward state (drunk, alcohol-poisoned..). I see
> HOSPITAL in the
> >title, CHAMPAGNE in the first line, CAUSED in the
> third.. the rest are
> >harder to unravel. but that's the fun. good stuff
> Barry
> >
> >KS
> >
> >On 17/05/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> >> OSPITA
> >>
> >>
> >> hampagn
> >> eatc
> >> ause
> >> ic
> >> i
> >>
> >>
> >> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 5-17-07
> (10:14 AM)
> >>
>
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