it passes their time
smiley
L
On Wed, June 6, 2012 18:42, Patrick McManus wrote:
> flicking their accessories :-)
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> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 06 June 2012 14:21
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> Subject: SNAP: Sutton Station, early evening
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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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