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#4644 10/11/00 11:43 PM
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Terrific trolling, Jazz! Now, let us find the post-Victorian philosopher.....


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#4646 10/12/00 07:31 AM
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Could I call you Shona for short?

Indeed it was the inimitable e e cummings. The last line from one of my favourite love poems. It goes like this:



somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the color of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands




cheer

the sunshine warrior


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>Could I call you Shona for short?

I was wondering when we were going to get our first e-romance. If its not Jackie and tsuwm (or was it Jackie and Max, Jackie and Maverick or .....) then I think that Shanks must stand a chance here .

(OK, just worked out who Shona is - maybe not .. then again ...)

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>favorite country down under, passionate supranationalism

There, there Max. We love you Kiwis too!


#4649 10/12/00 09:16 AM
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Hey Jo

I was just inferring, from FishonaBike, that it might refer to a person of the female persuasion who was already hitched. Then I discovered the fishona thread and realised it could be anybody. Apologies to FishonaBike for any confusion caused.

cheer

the sunshine warrior


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>Apologies for any confusion caused

It's fine. We thrive on confusion. How else did we notch up all those posts!


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<What do you call a collection of cyclists?>

A 'knees-up'? <grin>


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Jackie and tsuwm (or was it Jackie and Max, Jackie and Maverick or .....)

tsk tsk Jo. What are you implying?


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>Jackie and tsuwm

I prefer the feckful, taciturn type. 8-)


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