Thank you kindly, Sir
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On Mon, November 21, 2011 14:45, Andrew Burke wrote:
> Brilliant. Love it. Andrew
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> On 21 November 2011 20:37, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> A flying sheep, on fire, over-reaching
>> its apogee, engines burning, black smoke, an exploding eye, the wool
>> fluffy and soft. A fierce bear very keen to bite the sheep.
>> Its head, parting from its body, hurdles
>> forward, anxious to be there first quicker. It is a black-faced bear. A
>> baby bear pushes out from the side of the fierce bear chest,
>> air-launched, as yet unshapen. Below them, banging glaciers of choc ice;
>> and mauve stew, ready for tasting, bubbles on low heat. A turkey with a
>> llama’s body pursues a disintegrating wolf which worms munch on. The
>> turkey vanishes. The remnants of wolf break up and then again, small
>> bits floating, autumnal seeds. The stew is being eaten by invisible
>> mouths. An all-white cat, with clouds of shading round the left eye,
>> leaps over a hunched white rabbit rushing the other way. It is a huge
>> cat. A ferret seems to be trying to keep up with the scared rabbit but is
>> veering off to avoid the cat. Which cannot make it. The cat is falling.
>> The rabbit rolls and kicks the cat with a back leg.
>> Then the two fold into one and go on;
>> and the ferret slopes off at speed, discarding its jaw, which hangs, in
>> space and enlarging. It masquerades, briefly, as arachnid;
>> but then, there being no prey, that jaw transforms into a nest of cute
>> ducklings. Ink-drawn lancers charge fleeing onlookers. A dog looks up
>> from below, among smoke and moving mirrors, and barks. The upper world
>> of war and the lower world of commentary bang together, into each other.
>> It’s not
>> a good system that we have here. We need wings; the whole set digitized,
>> all brains and souls pulled out; changed for hard disks and processors. A
>> project on the drifting of continents. Scandinavia replacing France as
>> end of the mainland peninsula of Europe. Iberia has been crushed into
>> Africa
>> and the cracks filled in. Now they are spray-painting the whole thing to
>> illustrate or represent sedimentary deposition.
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>> UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
>> 42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
>> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
>> wfuk.org.uk/blog ----
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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