Thx., Solipsis - I actually do a lot of visual text/poetry stuff, but don't have it in any kind of e-form; it's only in my books or, sometimes, in galleries...
but aren't we ALL ")"? Heh - )John At 12:34 PM 3/7/02 -0800, you wrote: >Always enjoy reading your poems.. They would look great as word paintings.. >so terse yet loaded, so germinal and pregnant for interpretations' >dance.. they remind me of those remote outpost signposts with arrows >pointing in a hundred different directions to distant centres of >civilisation >remote from the site of reading.. >____________________________________________________________________________ >___________________________ > >splayed ants 'n (onanate rejection > > >Its facing the wrong direction but open parenthetics always remind me of >this curious roman funerary epigraphy example.. >If a slave was freed by a woman he would have to add this sort of reverse C >character to his/her name.. (see below) > >- is that of a widower to his wife: a former slave, freed by a woman (in >line 2, the backwards C means "of some woman" and is traditionally read >Gaiae liberta; now if a man freed a slave, his name got mentioned, of >course.) > > >ATIEIDIAE >) L >GALENE >[A]TIEDIVS [CH]RESTVS >[CO]NIVGI >[B] M __________________________________________ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-8114 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________
