I hadn’t even heard of Cities of Literature, but it might be nice to live in one…
Alan…? (My memory for names so bad, but I think I met him way back when…).
Doug
> On Nov 6, 2015, at 12:35 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> My old friend in Dunedin has been reporting to me on the visit there of Camilla,
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> Prince Charles’s Camilla.
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> Here is his latest bulletin from The City of Literature...
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> best from Max in Seattle
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>> A clever thing that Camilla got to inspect (as I did, subsequently) was parking meters that produce poems rather than tickets. Or perhaps as well as.
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>> As a City of Literature idea, and lately for the Vogel Street Party (a shindig in an apartment/former-industrial/area here) was a couple of retired parking meters donated by the Council and brought to life enhanced by a clever computer-geek at the University. A push of a button produces a printed poem, from a prepared digital download of such material. Whether or not it gives one paid parking, I don't know; maybe the poem is only consolation for the eventual parking-fine?
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>> The next idea is that since new meters are GPS and on-line, they might be programmed to link with other Cities of Literature around the world, so that in one place some verse from another city could pop out of the parking machine. Ah, dreams, dreams… But these geeks are devilish cunning!
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>> Alan
Douglas Barbour
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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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