Dave thanks and what did you or others think it meant-??for this poor old
puzzled head -some think it's a typo?
Cheers P
-----Original Message-----
From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
Sent: 24 October 2013 19:03
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Subject: Re: help protive!
Patrick - I think at you look at the paragraph as a whole and what it is
describing it's not too hard to decipher what Smart probably intended by
'protive'.
Best
David
------Original Message------
From: David Bircumshaw
To: British & Irish poets
Subject: Re: help protive!
Sent: 22 Oct 2013 10:45
Maybe you should quote the paragraph Patrick:
"I remember the night it turned him into an Assyrian girl, casting down his
lashes under a blossoming turban. Then we were two sisters and I the
protive. He had no breasts, and this was nostalgic. O the glittering incest
bird. But all so gracefully submissive, who will put the hand over the
heart? (82)"
On 22/10/2013, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Wept..............'
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> Part 8 page 82 in my edition (Paladin '91) mentions the word 'protive'
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> I can't seem to find the word anywhere -any of you got any ideas ? is
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> -I have faith in this group!! Do not let me down!!!!
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> Of course someone might have the original edition I was wondering if
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