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...
After the first one, you could drop them I suspect...
Doug
On 2013-10-02, at 8:35 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
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>>> Nothing blue is mowed.
>>> No food is truly blue.
>>> which uou object!We reserve blue for sky,
>>> jeans and, collectively,
>>> pockets of existential pain.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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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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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