Hey thanks, I’m glad some of these written things are landing! That particular one ‘up around the race course’ didn’t have a drawing. I like the look of Max’s ML with the annotated handwritten borders on photocopy! I once did a poem which I then annotated, looked similar ish, it was to prove to my tutors that my somewhat abstract and surreal poetry had references and an internal logic. (Why was I writing poetry during my public art degree) S
Sent from my spyphone > On 27 Sep 2020, at 16:58, Max Herman via NetBehaviour > <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > > I agree this one is full of marvels Simon, I wanted to write a reply but it > got too long winded. It could be an excellent stand-alone poem, or with > drawing (which I haven't viewed yet), or as part of an epic of word/image > combinations. > > My own project this AM is writing my ML hypothesis in pencil in margins of a > smudged b/w photocopy of same for the decannual "foot in door" show at local > art museum, everyone gets in if you are from Minnesota, due tomorrow. > > > From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on behalf of > Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 10:27 AM > To: Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > Cc: Edward Picot <julian.les...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Scratching tool > > Simon, > > I especially like this one - the bit about the Water Babies, and > > He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment > > Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells > > New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges > > > > Edward > > >> On 26/09/2020 11:13, Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour wrote: >> Victorian musings >> >> What L thought: >> >> >> >> ...Lounge in orchards on the hill past the racetrack imagining the >> Victorians in their black chenille petticoats, their ‘tashes, woollen coats >> that itch, spectacles, great long oversized leather shoes like mice, gaping >> socks fallen on the ankle bones of merchants, larl jockeys in real silk >> colours, fishermen imagining Dylan before he existed singing ‘they’re >> selling postscards of the hanging!’, lumpy German tourists who want to start >> a war and buy bonds what a racket!, little lads who sweep chimneys and dream >> of the deep glassy waters where the trout befriend ‘em and they make their >> way in illustrations of tiny babies to the sea, a dream of hot chimneys, >> ‘orrible bosses, made to scratch and clear flus, err wot else — yeah great >> carts full of apples and pears and bunches of violets, an Italian vagrant >> lies beside a bush, he sings some bits of opera, la la la la in a bass >> voice, then reads his book about hop picking in Kent, the young lad found >> feverish in the hops, the story of it all, the summer so long, the little >> dogs with ribbons, the cats outside the back door, minibuses on trips, >> larders, tomato sandwiches, salt and pepper pots and all that mouldy >> malarkey. >> >> L writ this in his diary one time. >> >> He thought of charcoal eyelashes on parchment >> >> Goggle hats for hearing the inside of shells >> >> New internets and virtual landscapes with tiny bridges >> >> A pencil >> >> Durer’s scratching tool... >> >> >> >> S. >> >> >> Sent from my spyphone >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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