Doug wrote
|First, thanks to Lawrence for his clarification that
|his remark doesn't apply to me.
Absolutely not, never intended
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|As for the rest, I can scarcely believe that yet again
|all discussion is swamped out.
I don't think it is. I think very few people are saying something and
wouldn't have done anyway.
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|The Buffalo listees, at least, like talking to each other
|as fellow writers, without fearing they're going to become
|engaged in uncomfortable politics.
Actually, they are throwing more shit at each other than we have ever
excreted
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| a poetry which thinks these issues should be hustled off its cosy chat
| pages would be hollow too -- at least in its halls of discussion.
I think all issues should be included in our poems and discussions as we can
manage
|we won't affect the Iraq question one whit makes no difference...
And that's not the point.
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On the ongoing subject of immature editorialising (AD not SS), I've thought
about Simon's post on AE entryism (my word); and think well it's a worth a
go. Good on him. I've always found Simon polite etc and that's to be
welcomed at AE... So Simon I am going to send you stuff for consideration. I
still retain my doubts, but then I did say Jack Straw wouldn't find against
Pinochet - mind you I am still looking for a decent conspiracy narrative to
believe in regarding that one
I am sure everyone was dying to know all that
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And I am not sure this has the strength to be a thread without breaking...
But has anyone noticed "bored of"... I am sure this is a relatively new
coinage. I first noticed it mid 80s from the then resident teenager. "I'm
bored of doing that"... I have noticed it spreading until today it came
through in a glossy-ish magazine, describing someone "bored of plays, bored
of films, bored of news" - it was an article about the tv revolution -
"revolution" an interesting word in that context itself...
and it seems to me that being bored OF things changes the meaning of boredom
from the one I grew up with, a thing I don't think I feel much if at all, to
a thing that seems to afflict some all the time
I am interested in rapid change even with so much print around which might
have been expected to fix usage a bit or slow down change
or am I just getting old and losing my linguistic senses?
Diana Bless
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Lawrence Upton's website: http://members.spree.com/sip/lizard/
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"WORD SCORE UTTERANCE CHOREOGRAPHY in verbal and visual poetry"
edited by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton
Writers Forum, London, 1998; 156 pp; ISBN 0 86162 750 4
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