Thanks Pat, Max, Doug.
Max, an example of mass mood shifts we have just had in the federal election surely. Channel Abbot may broadcast different moods for the faithful no doubt. Channel Murdoch has been doing it with impunity for years and particularly chimed in this year in Queensland, that place of of deceptively sunny dispositions, no doubt enhanced over the chemist's counter, as you rightly alert us.
Bill
On 26/09/2013, at 2:06 AM, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So maybe Bill's just ahead of the curve (& should make sure he has this copyrighted asap)...
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> Doug
> On 2013-09-25, at 1:43 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Only today, Patrick, comes news that antidepressants are killing people in Victoria (and no doubt elsewhere):
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>> http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/prescription-drugs-alarm-20130924-2ucis.html
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>> Max
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>> On 25/09/2013, at 4:47 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>>> Hi Bill hope your black ,black doom zones don't win out -try some
>>> antidepressants :-)
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>>> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
>>> Sent: 24 September 2013 22:35
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Mood map snap
>>>
>>> Mood map
>>>
>>> What if this could be done:
>>> A full colour display -
>>> shades of scornful red,
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>>> yellow choler, Othello greens,
>>> jaunty, deluding pinks
>>> (on the commercial stations),
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>>> black, black doom zones -
>>> iso-mood bars connecting
>>> areas of equal intensity,
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>>> tight concentric circles
>>> of furrowed constriction.
>>> Whack it on the end
>>>
>>> of the nightly news bulletin -
>>> emotional weather report
>>> predictions for y'all.
>>>
>>> bw
>>> 25.9.13
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