Thank you, taking my preferred meaning of "thick"
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On Wed, June 6, 2012 17:05, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Thick description, Lawrence, & that witty turn at the end. Neat.
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> On 2012-06-06, at 7:21 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>> Two flicks of light across a small shadow
>> hardly smudging it, like a pen ticking on to a grubby fragment of
>> cardboard, taking tally; while, behind them, at their source, where no
>> hands have pressed with radiation, a pool of the stuff spilling off a
>> wall down which pours, diagonally, thick sunshine from a complex but most
>> unlikely shape of its own gleaming self, undeclarative. Above this,
>> gloom, the top of it in depth although transparent; but no one sees
>> much. No one looks round. The announcer appears
>> not to be reading from a written script, speaking each word as a
>> separable instance of things unknown, as if sampling them among alien
>> objects. Some passengers stand about, flicking their accessories
>> unacknowledged, perhaps thinking of grass.
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>> Lawrence Upton
>> Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>> New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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