Wow, silence plus two. Thanks for this, Barry.
Bill
On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 5:56 pm, Barry Alpert <
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> "It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic
> [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two
> sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in
> circulation." -- John Cage
>
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 08:25:19 +1000, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> >Thanks, Doug. Back to Millicent - perhaps the silence keeps coming out of
> >the dishes once they’ve had the silent treatment.
> >Bill
> >
> >On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 at 12:44 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Jill, good to see you here again.
> >>
> >> Bill, I feel ours is ‘quiet,’ but not sure Id say ‘silent.’ Still there
> >> you are \, away, & with this thing asking these questions. Goo on ya.
> >>
> >> Doug
> >>
> >> > On Aug 8, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > All good questions Bill. In the poem and post-poem.
> >> > The sounds of silence. Maybe that could be a poem, or a song (OK, I'll
> >> > see myself out).
> >> > Best,Jill
> >> > ________________________
> >> > Jill Jones
> >> > www.jilljones.comau
> >> >
> >> > Latest book: Brink, Five Islands Press
> >> > http://fiveislandspress.com/catalogue/brink-jill-jones
> >> >
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> >> > From: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics"
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> >> > Sent:Wed, 8 Aug 2018 21:58:42 +1000
> >> > Subject:Re: Silence Plus
> >> >
> >> > Thanks, Sheila, Millicent, Patrick. Is silence neutral, I wonder,
> >> > capable
> >> > of being added to, or is it negative - no noise- possessing a
> >> > subtractable
> >> > or subtracted quality? If neutral, every sound is silence plus it.
> >> > And how
> >> > does silence sound and from whence does it pour? Perhaps we should
> >> > let
> >> > Basho’s haiku have the last word, even with its silent 17th
> >> > syllable:
> >> > The temple bell stops -
> >> > but the sound keeps coming
> >> > Out of the flowers
> >> >
> >> > Billo
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 8:50 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> cheers Bill thanks a smile -posh upmarket silence!! if I had one I
> >> > would
> >> >> have it play Vivaldi! what other choices
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On 07/08/2018 23:33, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >> >>> Silence plus
> >> >>> Bosch dishwasher model
> >> >>> in Lyon apartment
> >> >>> That’d be some sort of super silence,
> >> >>> you’d imagine
> >> >>> Not your common quiet
> >> >>>
> >> >>> But if anything is added
> >> >>> to silence
> >> >>> would that be something
> >> >>> about which a manufacturer
> >> >>> ought boast?
> >> >>>
> >> >>> bw
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >
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> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
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> >> Shakespeare
> >> Drag yr mouldy old bones
> >> Up these stairs & tell me
> >> What you died of,
> >> I think
> >> I’ve got it
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