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I sit on or against an ice pack as an anti-inflammatory gesture. Barry sounds like a poem in there -sympathies P On 04/08/2018 17:04, Barry Alpert wrote: > Doug, > > Two neurosurgeons independently diagnosed my particular lower back pain about 25 years ago. Since the 3 hour operation could leave me fully dependent on a wheelchair, I chose the other option: living with the pain. These days my best strategies include local application of a Thai concoction called "White Monkey Holding Peach Balm" followed by an ice pack till it becomes room temperature. I can't use the anti-inflammatory ibuprofen because it interacts with aspirin. Though the second line of my poem must have referred to Wittgenstein within the film when I "found" it, I'd speculate that at the same time it evokes painful situations in my life: when I'm away from my house without an icepack, the pain level increases, and I have to stop what I'm doing to return home and retrieve one of them. > > Barry > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 08:23:02 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Bary >> >> I hope that anti-inflammatory gesture is working. >> >> Small can be beautiful, (or beautifully enigmatic) & here it is… >> >> Doug >> >>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 7:07 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>> Doug and Andrew, >>> >>> That's all I wrote down during the 71 minute film. Unable to use the title to generate an acrostic. Yesterday I added the "?" and abandoned the possibility of any punctuation after the first line. >>> >>> Otherwise I've increased the amount of time at home during which I sit on or against an ice pack as an anti-inflammatory gesture. >>> >>> Barry >>> >>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 08:30:44 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> >>>> And a fascinating (& fascinatingly) short take, to that ‘ice’… >>>> >>>> Doug >>>> >>>>> On Aug 2, 2018, at 2:31 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for reminding me, Barry. A fascinating man. >>>>> >>>>> Andrew >>>>> >>>>> On 2 August 2018 at 06:32, Barry Alpert < >>>>> [log in to unmask]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> JARMAN's WITTGENSTEIN >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> What's the logical structure of this gesture >>>>>> still homesick for the ice? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Barry Alpert / Wash DC>>Rockville MD / 03-31-18 (4:00pm) > 08-01-18 >>>>>> (6:12pm) >>>>>> >> Douglas Barbour >> [log in to unmask] >> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ >> >> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2 (UofAPress). >> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press). >> Listen. If (UofAPress): >> >> >> >> Shakespeare >> Drag yr mouldy old bones >> Up these stairs & tell me >> What you died of, >> I think >> I’ve got it >> Too. >> >> Sharon Thesen >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ######################################################################## >> >> To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the POETRYETC list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=POETRYETC&A=1