Radio is interesting
Lectern, yes; maybe several of them!
Ta!
L
On 6 November 2013 16:42, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I hear this as coming through a radio, almost, Lawrence. Or from a
> lectern...
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> Love 'executive flummery'...; & that it's always there & always waiting to
> be caught up to, as here...
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> Doug
> On Nov 6, 2013, at 5:03 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > bonhomie inquires of certainty,
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> > and particularity,
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> > with calculating pride;
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> > courtesy is officialdom
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> > yielded by statuary
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> > as often as knots tighten;
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> > and such officialdom
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> > circulates the evidence
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> > of instability
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> > and yet leads around it
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> > as if it were not there,
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> > showing civility,
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> > discretion and due forethought
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> > holding back fools with words'
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> > executive flummery
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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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> Guy Davenport
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