Hi Jill
I don't usually use Word anymore but if I remember right you have to save
the file as an rtf and *then *copy and paste.
I liked the way your poem had a slight flavour of Language poetry-ish.
On 17 February 2011 23:03, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Thanks. And the line spacing is a weird thing my email does sometimes when
> I paste in from Word. It wasn't always thus, so not sure why. Because I
> agree with yr thot and would also think the same if I saw lines with line
> space between.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
>
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> On 18/02/2011, at 2:42 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
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> Talk about sampling: this works terrifically well, Jill.
>>
>> A small question: when I see double spacing (out of Olson etc) I think I'm
>> meant to read each line very separately (as if each line were a kind of
>> stanza), but it may just be how it appears in the e-mail here?
>>
>> But I loved the swerves...
>>
>> Doug
>> On 2011-02-17, at 12:01 AM, Jill Jones wrote:
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>> Gem/ weird, reforming
>>>
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for
>> exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience,
>> just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
>>
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