I have a notional -- archetypal? -- koala bear in my head now. It's
feet are sticking out of my right ear.
L
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Sent:Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:06:51 +1030
Subject:Re: Snap
Yes, I know the moving on thing after something doesn't stick,
electronically, and then - in my case - it doesn't matter. You write
then move on.
The Rolf H thing did occur to me as well, fleetingly
On 18/10/2012, at 10:55 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> Hi Jill
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> Yes
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> I think it was Doug wrote about it yesterday and I started a long
> reply that brought in the Opies and god knows what and then
realised
> that I was in the wrong editor -- I forward from one to the other
at
> present and keep doing it. I think I have my own jiscmail server
just
> to send me messages asking who I am
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> I was thinking that very few games really do involve originality
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> you learn the words and the actions and you do them
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> films may throw this into relief when they become source
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> anyway this morning I found I hadn't got or couldn't find that
> message
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> i had started to say as I realised that I couldn't send my message
> that I had moved on to speaking of the mother; but as I began to
> polish the line(s) I realised that I didn't need them or rather
that
> they got in the way
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> or rather they began to turn the poem into a moralistic comment
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> and there's far too much of that already
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> and I am doing my best not to hum Two little boys by Rolf Harris
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> thanks / best
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> L
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> Jill Jones [log in to unmask] [1]
> 09:10 (4 hours ago) Reply
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> Ah, that ending, that isn't
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> On 18/10/2012, at 2:16 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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> > Snap
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> > Two boy children following mother.
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> > One boy utters a few strange words
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