Oh, you're doing fine, Stephen, even without crime on your hands.
Hal
On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
> Hal, unless somebody with crime on their hands can handle this one
> better, and hopefully, not worse, I am going to leave you with this
> query out on the lurch of your own imagination for just this once.
>
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> Imagine!
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> Stephen V
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> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: hello, again
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 12:33 PM
>
> Define "better" and "worse." I won't even ask about
> "utopic." (Or "is.")
>
> Hal
>
> On Sep 5, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
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>> "Ideally" is utopic.
>>
>> "At best" is better than what was.
>>
>> For better or worse, these are my "ideal responses" to your
> question!
>>
>>
>>
>> Stephen
>>
>> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> From: Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: hello, again
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 12:06 PM
>>
>> How does "at best" differ from "ideally"?
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>>
>>> At best, I suspect, the words in a poem, if not the poem itself,
>>> manage to attach(velcro)themselves temporarily to the reader. And
>>> then dissolve away again. Ideally, I suspect, the poem may alter
>>> the course of one's consciousness - as say, the way of looking
>>> at a black bird caught inside a jar in Tennessee, or
>>> the way one imagines Sarah Palin "dressing" a moose
> that's
>> been
>>> taken down by a shot from the rented helicopter hunting service
>>> up there in Anchorage, or one of those White House lunch
>>> conversations between Rachel
>>> Loden, Richard Nixon, and Henry Kissinger back there circa 1966.
>>
>> "Never underestimate the power of stupid
>> people in large groups."
>> --George Carlin
>>
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> "Never underestimate the power of stupid
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