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On Nov 27, 2014, at 3:33 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> that would be one example
> but it is extremely widespread
> I find it increasingly hard to speak to most human beings they are so
> intellectually dishonest
>
> L
>
> On 26 November 2014 at 18:03, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]
>> wrote:
>
>> blaming themselves without accepting responsibility. Tony Blair comes to
>> mind
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 26 November 2014 16:49
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: stil life
>>
>> It's enough to make anyone coke, bless your fingers. I suppose it is tv
>> doc,
>> yes,video as oppose to hollywood, "real" as opposed to staged - do you know
>> Patten's projectionists nightmare?
>>
>> I forget what it was called in the working file. I have been tinkering with
>> it these last few days but had to open it again to find the title! That was
>> "untitled"; and I was dissatisfied. Then I remembered still life, which is
>> where I started this bout of writing / rewriting maybe 18 months ago
>>
>> Please forgive my opening
>>
>> L
>>
>> On 26 November 2014 at 16:16, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The pun of the title slipped past me, at first, L. I now take it to
>>> be a TV doc, seen & resisted perhaps, all that life stilled, all still
>>> there, l;coked in those pictures...
>>>
>>> D
>>> On Nov 26, 2014, at 5:20 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> large grey bunker; thin blue gun out of it --
>>>>
>>>> these are design considerations -- voice
>>>>
>>>> over -- the public relations' best people
>>>>
>>>> talking of deaths, blaming themselves without
>>>>
>>>> accepting responsibility. So much
>>>>
>>>> information on digital displays;
>>>>
>>>> mud sousing every duckboard; a broken
>>>>
>>>> bridge in the foreground; big manhatch thrown back
>>>>
>>>> atop a tank; someone's burned hand as calm
>>>>
>>>> as it's ever been; as it ever shall be;
>>>>
>>>> several crawl up there under shadows' cover
>>>>
>>>
>>> Douglas Barbour
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>>>
>>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
>>> Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>>
>>> that we are only
>>> as we find out we are
>>>
>>> Charles Olson
>>>
>>
>
Douglas Barbour
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
Thomas De Quincey
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