Hey, Dave, I like that! Andrew
2008/5/10 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> I'd hazard, Doug, that if anyone could explain the term then there'd
> be no more need for it.
>
> The biologists say that genetically we are nearly identical
> individuals. It's in the space between 'nearly' and 'identical' that
> things like poetry happen.
>
> 2008/5/9 Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>:
> > Some might argue that that's about as close to a definition as we can
> come,
> > Dave.
> >
> > I mean, do any of us really know how to 'explain' the term?
> >
> > Doug
> > On 8-May-08, at 11:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >
> >> So the statement means 'something we cannot explain or agree upon a
> >> definition of deducts itself from the manner and actuality of the
> >> reporting of news' and by that statement we define 'something which
> >> cannot explain or agree upon' which we call poetry.
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
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> >
> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> > Latest books:
> > Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> > Wednesdays'
> >
> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
> >
> > Lives devoted to Beauty seldom end well.
> >
> > Sir Kenneth Clark
> >
>
>
>
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> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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