I should have known - you are one of my best readers
mea culpa
L
On 21 November 2013 16:27, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No, no, Lawrence, I liked the 'if'. as its usual suspect potential...
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> The poem invites me to wonder about a (or all the possible) speaker(s)...
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> There, is that clearer?
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> Doug
> On Nov 21, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> > What are you asking, dear boy?
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> > Do you want me to delete it?
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> > No. It's needed.
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> > The line begins to shake apart without it
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> > & I want the qualification.
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> > *
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> > If it's not deletion, then... ?
> > “If” is a colloquialism for “when”; but sounds better in this context
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> > L
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> > On 20 November 2013 23:39, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> Who, I'm tempted to ask.
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> >> that 'if' hovering....
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> >> Doug
> >> On Nov 20, 2013, at 6:28 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> >>> We, anyone, are far too dangerous
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> >>> if we make overwhelming promises:
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> >>> the future is settled in its reality;
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> >>> and the will, therefore, is an embarrassment,
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> >>> clutching at some decorative fantasies;
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> >>> or clouds; or throwing itself at open doors,
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> >>> between command and adjournment, without care.
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> >>> Suddenly, much is secure with the fool's falling.
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> >> Douglas Barbour
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> >> Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
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> Douglas Barbour
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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)
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> Art is always the replacing of indifference by attention.
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