I love the use of Sunshine as an abusive appellation.
On Thursday, 24 December 2015, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Yes, I was immobile when I transferred to the new computer though it's
> basically the same - Win 8
> I'll wait on Win 10 till they force me
> maybe I'll be rich and can go back to a Mac
> So Win 8, resentfully - I'm really a DOS 3 boy
> but they keep changing things, pretending newness and improvements because
> for so many everyday purposes what we have is ok
> what really gets me is when it tells me to get my supervisor's permission
> -- look sunshine I hiss at the imagined programmer I was hacking BBCs when
> you hadn't been thought of...
> and much good that does me and my blood pressure
>
> L
>
> On 23 December 2015 at 15:48, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Ha
> >
> > I take the LRB, so also can get it all online (but only read the blog
> > there, really (or older pieces I want to revisit. Prefer to read the
> paper
> > version, even if I am months behind.
> >
> > Ah, new improved laptops etc, which then demand you get to know them,
> > rather than the other way about….
> >
> > Doug
> > > On Dec 23, 2015, at 4:23 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > There is that. I've been there. It wasn't quite that.
> > > I'm in two minds about Symonds Roberts anyway and wasn't greatly
> bothered
> > > when they withheld his work -- he and or others have to earn their
> > crusts.
> > > I can get most things that interest me via my college affiliation; but
> I
> > am
> > > on a newish laptop now and need to get it adjusted by the techs to cope
> > > with their adoption of various Micros.... Can't even bear to type the
> > > word....
> > > I dare say I might manage it myself but am too busy, or think I am, to
> > mug
> > > it up; but lack the organisation to go in and see people who have.
> > > I joined the LRB mailing list a few years back when Denise Riley
> > published
> > > her poem around the death of her son; and since then have taken what I
> > can
> > > get from their mailings. Sometimes I only get part of an essay; and
> that
> > > can be conceptually interesting... Sometimes frustrating.
> > > What appealed to me in what I sent was the litany (sic) of certainty
> > under
> > > MSR's title. And it would be wonderful to hear it sung by a choir!
> > > Oh oh oh everyone
> > >
> > > L
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 22 December 2015 at 16:15, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Having spent a fruitless hour yesterday on something else, I
> sympathize,
> > >> Lawrence.
> > >>
> > >> Yes, indeed.
> > >>
> > >> Doug
> > >>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 8:50 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> *Poem: ‘Rehearsal for the Day of Joy’**with apologies to Michael
> > >>> Symons Roberts and LRB*
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> > >> Douglas Barbour
> > >> [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > [log in to unmask] <javascript:;>
> > https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> > 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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