Lawrence, I cannot help saying how hilarious I found this post. I think is
speaks to our global situation in multiple ways.
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I didn't mean to be elliptical. I only fish on Scilly, keeping such tackle
> as I own there. Well, there is a little box of gizmos I barely understand,
> which I bought in Lidl (pronounce I believe Leedl if you are German), and
> they are so interesting in their perspex top box that I have kept them as
> an unintentional art work.
>
> I go for mackerel. I like mackerel. I settle for anything.
>
>
> Mackerel tend to capitulate. They're not bright.
>
>
> I chat to a chap whose name I have forgotten, but he's often there. Last
> time I saw him, he was moaning that the weather was too poor to swim round
> the island. It's about a mile by three quarters. So that's a lot of
> swimming. The tide can rise 5m. There are 5 main currents. It's horrific.
> He dives in and watches the fish and occasionally murders them for food.
> This last time he said he'd forgotten he wasnt near a freezer so would I
> like some.
>
>
> My personal successes are much less. If I get them out the water they stay
> out. I doubt many survive the shock; and the least I can do is eat them;
> and they can be horribly wounded by the hook. That's it really.
>
>
> Do ask if I'm not saying what you want; but I am pig-ignorant.... maybe
> barnacle ignorant
>
>
> On 5 March 2014 19:53, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > yes
> > yet the expansion in your comment on the whole situation, Lawrence, is so
> > interesting that I wish more of it could be distributed in your
> at-present
> > for-me elliptical mini-evocation.
> >
> > M
> >
> > On 06/03/2014, at 4:15 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> >
> > > thank you, Doug
> > > I am an intuitive fisherman who casts where the knowledgeable fisherman
> > > kindly point out that I have no chance
> > > I am often successful, but it upsets me, even though I only fish to
> eat
> > I
> > > am much happier when the knowledgeable fishermen give me their cast
> offs
> > > I'm glad you think I made a poem out of that angst!
> > > it makes the seas seem less incarnadine
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5 March 2014 16:55, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> A heavy landing, it feels like, Lawrence, & that's meant as praise, so
> > >> much so quickly..
> > >>
> > >> Doug
> > >> On Mar 5, 2014, at 4:22 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> *landed fish*
> > >>>
> > >>> hearing
> > >>>
> > >>> the only sound
> > >>>
> > >>> collapsing
> > >>>
> > >>> through several orifices
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> a large slowness
> > >>>
> > >>> left unfinished
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Douglas Barbour
> > >> [log in to unmask]
> > >>
> > >> 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)
> > >>
> > >> Swept snow, Li Po,
> > >> by dawn's 40-watt moon
> > >> to the road that hies to office
> > >> away from home.
> > >>
> > >> Lorine Niedecker
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