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 :-)
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Bill Wootton
Sent: 10 October 2013 12:22
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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
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> 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
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>>> 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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