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Posted By: maverick URGENT! - 04/18/05 04:10 PM
If anyone is Here but not There, you need to go There for a message (it's under the third stone by the hollow oak tree). If some don't understand this, put it down to too much Welsh sun (HAH!!!!)

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: URGENT! - 04/20/05 12:50 AM
And wherever you go, there you are...

Posted By: wofahulicodoc not at all urgent - 04/20/05 08:13 PM
The other day beyond the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I hope he hasn't gone away!

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: not at all urgent - 04/20/05 08:15 PM
according to http://www.anthroid.net/autopsiathemanwhowasn'tthere.htm that should read

The Man Who Wasn't There

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away
[Hugo Mearns 1939]

And there seem to be variations galore as well.
Sic semper nonsense.
Posted By: Father Steve Re: not at all urgent - 04/20/05 08:52 PM
Anthropos apteros, perplexed
To know which turning to take next,
Looked up and wished he were the bird
To whom such doubts must seem absurd.

~W.H. Auden

Posted By: Vernon Compton Re: not at all urgent - 04/20/05 09:04 PM
>Anthropos apteros, perplexed

Or in my case, anthropos apteryx, perplexed.

Posted By: TEd Remington Re: not at all urgent - 04/21/05 09:36 AM
No. You're not apteryx your reputation on that one silly little poem.

Posted By: wofahulicodoc Re: not at all urgent - 04/21/05 01:46 PM
Wherever I go
I go, too
and spoil everything

-- ?

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: knot at all urgent - 04/27/05 01:37 AM
KNOTS
Original text from the book *Knots* by psychologist R.D. Laing (1970)
(Kerry Minnear / Derek Shulman / Phil Shulman / Raymond Shulman)

Gentle Giant - 1972


All in all each man in all men
All men in each man.
He can see she can't, she can see
she can
see whatever, whatever.
You may know what I don't know,
but not that
I don't know it and I can't tell you
so you will.
To tell me all man in all men
All men in each man.
He can see she can't, she can see
she can
see whatever, whatever.
You may know what I don't know,
but not that
I don't know it and I can't tell you
so you will have to tell me all.
It hurts him to think that she is
hurting her by him being hurt to think
that she thinks he is hurt by making her
feel guilty at hurting him by her thinking
she wants him to want her. Her wants
her to
want him to get him to want him to get
him to want her she pretends.
He tries to make her afraid by not
being afraid.
You may know what I don't know, but not
that I don't know it and I can't
tell you so you will have to tell
me all.
I get what I deserve. I deserve what I
get. I have it so I deserve it. I deserve
it for I have it. I get what I deserve.
What I deserve - what I deserve what
I get.
I have it so I deserve.
He tries to make her afraid by not
being afraid.






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