As if, indeed, Hal. It moves so neatly through its narrative gyrations… rueful laughter from this reader…
Doug
On Jun 29, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> They didn't have much trouble teaching the ape
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> to write poems: first they strapped him into the chair,
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> then tied the pencil around his hand (the paper had already
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> been nailed down). Then Dr. Bluespire leaned over
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> his shoulder and whispered into his ear: "You look like
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> a god sitting there. Why don't you try writing something?"
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>
> The ape, deep in thought, swatted idly at his ear, thinking
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> Bluespire's buzzing to be that of a mosquito. The pencil
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> he held seemed archaic, too crude an instrument for his
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> thoughts. Bluespire had always been a pest, wanting the ape
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> to do this and do that. Always jotting down notes, as though
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> anything he learned from his observations might somehow
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> advance his race, his species. As though humanity might
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> somehow be saved from its fate by just any old ape.
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>
> --HJ
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> "*Vraiment*,
> Poetry can be so many more things
> Than what people mostly believe it is."
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> --Anselm Hollo
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> Halvard Johnson
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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