Like it, Doug. And I do 'read' that space and its attendant emphasis on the
next 'measured' (pause) 'lights across the river' ... That's how I hear it.
PS: Also thrilled to tell you all I'm off to Finland for March 2014.
Thanks, Kasper, for posting that invitation to us all.
Andrew
On 28 November 2013 10:15, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Comforting sort of word, measured, Doug, with its implications here at
> least, of unhurriedness and time for tallying. Is the space significant in
> the opening line, I wonder?
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> Bill
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> > On 28 Nov 2013, at 4:06 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > the measured lights the measured
> > lights across the river
> > measure time & space
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> > along this snowy avenue
> > they count out
> > speed alone
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> > jagged as
> > the brakes or
> > accelerator allow
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> > Douglas Barbour
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> > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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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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Andrew
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