I suppose I am being what is known in Australia, Pat, as 'a ratbag'.
> On 11 Oct 2013, at 2:17 am, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Bill you are looking for an argument keep this up and you will make it into
> one
> Cheers P
> This happens all the time in my family :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 10 October 2013 12:22
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: snapshot
>
> So, at one point it is not argument, then it is? In which case it is not now
> 'nearly'?
>
> Nit picking Bill
>
>> On 10/10/2013, at 9:54 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>>
>> very easy
>>
>> L
>>
>>> On 09/10/2013, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Is it possible to 'nearly argue', L?
>>> B
>>>
>>>> On 10 Oct 2013, at 6:23 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ah, & the machined response (& persons)...
>>>>
>>>> So it goes...
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>>> On 2013-10-09, at 6:59 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Norwood Junction
>>>>> some days ago
>>>>>
>>>>> L
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/10/2013, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>> L Ha life in the raw could have been Raynes Park
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics
>>>>>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>>>>>> Sent: 09 October 2013 11:52
>>>>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>>>> Subject: snapshot
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A passenger and a station functionary, close to, nearly argue as
>>>>>> the one asks for direction; is told; yet asks again; hears
>>>>>> repeated advice and asks for repetition.
>>>>>> Each raises its voice each time,
>>>>>> exasperated, ruffled,
>>>>>> regretful of such existence;
>>>>>> till both turn in parting,
>>>>>> waving a finger at the head,
>>>>>> counterclockwise, telling
>>>>>> their notional observer
>>>>>> they have been with a nut.
>>>>
>>>> Douglas Barbour
>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
>>>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>> Latest books:
>>>> Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy)
>>>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962
>>>> Recording Dates
>>>> (Rubicon Press)
>>>>
>>>> Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
>>>>
>>>> Guy Davenport
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