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Bud Grossmann’s
Words of the Week
for the Week of
August 18, 2013
Previously unpublished
literary annotations.
© 2013 by Bud Grossmann.
All Rights Reserved.
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Big Fish in Small Pond, 2012
© 2012 by Bud Grossmann
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FISHING FOR COMPLIMENTS
From: DA Albertini <d—@gmail.com>
To: dave f <d—@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:03:46 -0500
Subject: Rainy Sunday
Slept long, feel better.
Drinking coffee, eating egg and toast. Saving fruit for later in the day treats. Think I will make hot choc., it's that kind of day.
WoW a bit too 'look how clever I am'. But did enjoy the list of fruit and photo. "Letters to Granny" still my favorites. As I don't write anything publishable, I really shouldn't judge...
TTFN
Love, D
From: David C. Fischer <d—@juno.com>
To: Deborah Ann Albertini <d—@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 09:46:35 -0500
Subject: Good morning!
So glad, dear Debbie, you got a long night's rest.
Ogden Nash and I appreciate your input on our WoW. Please feel free to judge. Just this morning, in a book by Brendan Gill, I read an Eliot quote (T.S., I'm assuming—yes, yes, thank you, Mr. Internet!), "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." With a half-minute's Googling I located a helpful expansion of the quotation.
Last night I offered my father first chance to watch a Netflix movie 3 hours and 47 minutes long. It's a 1962 film about a British guy in the Middle East. Sir Lawrence of Olivier or someone. Damn it, Debra Ann, now you've made me self-conscious about cleverness. I shall never again display my wit for you! Peter of O'Toole, someone corrected me.
Love this drizzling rain and the moist fragrances that slip into my bedroom through my slightly opened window. This would be a fine day for fishing!
Love, Dave
From: DA Albertini <d—@gmail.com>
To: dave f <d—@juno.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 10:05:58 -0500
Subject: Re: Good morning!
Sir Lawrence of Olivier - sure appreciate the word arrangement. Yes it is Peter O'Toole. Saw the movie many, many years ago. Read Queen of the Desert, about Gertrude Bell, scholar, friend of Lawrence, and powerful in shaping British policy in Middle East. Behind every successful man.... Look her up on Wiki, I suggest.
Are you going fishing?
Love, D
From: David C. Fischer <d—@juno.com>
To: Deborah Ann Albertini <d—@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2013 17:53:12 -0500
Subject: Work In Progress: This week's WoW.
I don't know if I have diluted the cleverness, but I tinkered with the meter of the last two lines of my little poem and updated the Web page.
First published version:
Lorraine Collett, a California girl, loved
luscious peaches and apricots, plums,
pears, persimmons, et cetera.
But an exquisite dried grape
was Lorraine's raisin d'être.
Present version:
Lorraine Collett, a California girl, loved
luscious peaches and apricots, plums,
pears, persimmons, et cetera.
But the flesh of dried grape
was Lorraine's sweet raisin d'être.
No, I did not go fishing. I possess a rod and reel but no license, no trout stamp, and no wish to be mouthed by mothquitoes.
Love, Dave
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