I see, Doug. Lest I be accused of further passivity, here goes one more time:
Bill
Blue
Nothing blue is mowed.
No food truly blue.
We reserve blue for sky,
jeans and, collectively,
pockets of existential pain.
Blue does not exist in Russia,
only words for its shades.
Sea is said to be blue
but only in the deep
and unstably so.
Unmixed, pure blue
falls between violet
and green. Males mis
-pick green from blue
more than females do.
Whole cultures don't share
the western blue. Korean,
Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
have no separate words
for green and blue.
So deep in the Americas
and in much of Asia
blue means go
and - slap my stanza -
blue lawns get mowed.
bw
4.10.13
On 04/10/2013, at 12:49 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> You want me tl notice the 'is's, Bill? I tend not to like such passive constructions, & here too, a bit. But maybe the 'philosophizing' allows for a bit...
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> After the first one, you could drop them I suspect...
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> Doug
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> On 2013-10-02, at 8:35 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Thanks, Doug. I have googled the Gass 'Blue' book. It looks fascinating. I will seek it out. Seems I have inadvertently strayed in to a can of worms, to mix my metaphors, which is another area on which I see Gass holds opinions.
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>> So my ises got past you, this time it is the are to which you object!
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>> Bill
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>>> On 3 Oct 2013, at 3:51 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>> 'are'? Bill
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>>> you begin. I'd recommend trying to find William Gass's On Being Blue; a book length investigation...
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>>> Doug
>>>> On 2013-10-01, at 3:07 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>> Blue
>>>>
>>>> Nothing blue is mowed.
>>>> No food is truly blue.
>>>> which uou object!We reserve blue for sky,
>>>> jeans and, collectively,
>>>> pockets of existential pain.
>>>>
>>>> There is no blue in Russia,
>>>> only words for its shades.
>>>> Sea is said to be blue
>>>> but only in the deep
>>>> and unstably so.
>>>>
>>>> Pure blue is unmixed,
>>>> falls between violet
>>>> and green. Males mis
>>>> -pick green from blue
>>>> more than females do.
>>>>
>>>> Whole cultures don't share
>>>> the western blue. Korean,
>>>> Thai, Japanese, Dakota Sioux,
>>>> have no separate words
>>>> for green and blue.
>>>>
>>>> So deep in the Americas
>>>> and in much of Asia
>>>> blue means go
>>>> and - slap my stanza
>>>> blue lawns are mowed.
>>>>
>>>> bw
>>>> 30.09.13
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