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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 2 Mar 1994.
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Who wants to finish this SWAN?

Who wants to finish this SWAN?

alt.ascii-art · 5 messages · 2 Mar 1994 - 6 Mar 1994
Bob Allison <bob...@gagme.wwa.com> ASCII art 2 Mar 1994 18:20 · permalink · report
A blast from the past.  And a striking one too.  Brawn by Adrienne Rich
in 1969.  Wish I'd done it.
 
 
                Dusk
              above the
          water hang the
                    loud
                   flies
                   Here
                  O so
                 gray
                then
               what            A pale signal will appear
              when        Soon before its shadow fades
             where      Here in this pool of opened eye
            in us     No upon us As at the very edges
             of where we take shape in the dark air
              This object bares its image awakening
                ripples of recognition that will
                   brush darkness up into light
even after this bird this hour both drift byatop the perfect
sad instant now     already passing out of sight
                 toward yet-untroubled reflection
               this image bares its object darkening
              into memorial shades scattered bits of
            light      No of water Or something across
            water        Breaking up no being regathered
             soon          Yet by then a swan will have
              gone              yes out of mind into what
               vast
                pale
                 hush
                  of a
                  place
                   past
         sudden dark as
             if a swan
                sang

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In article <CM0...@news.wau.nl> vli...@rcl.wau.nl writes:
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>I started this swan two years ago but never finished it.
>Any takers?                            Regards, Meindert

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|Ian.Stewart,.U1....@cs.mcgill.ca.Tel:737-0680......-####-?.d.@##
|NO,.I'm.NOT.doing.anything.productive.today...Gotta.problem?.|    |..!.|
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Jason A Bissey <her...@prairienet.org> ASCII art 3 Mar 1994 20:46 · permalink · report
In a previous article, ia...@cs.mcgill.ca (Ian Frederic STEWART) says:

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Ian,
	That was great work!  Could you do the same with a moose?  
Antlers would be pretty hard to do, but I won't mind if they're a little 
botched up.. I can fix them.

-JB-

-- 
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Jason A. Bissey                  |-Prairienet's Coordinator of Member Services-
Internet: her...@prairienet.org| "Where in the hell are the singin' cats?!!"
     Also available at "hel...@prairienet.org" for help and information.

In article <2l5ibd$4s...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> her...@prairienet.org (Jason A Bissey) writes:
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>In a previous article, ia...@cs.mcgill.ca (Ian Frederic STEWART) says:
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>Ian,
>	That was great work!  Could you do the same with a moose?  
>Antlers would be pretty hard to do, but I won't mind if they're a little 
>botched up.. I can fix them.
>
>Jason A. Bissey                  |-Prairienet's Coordinator of Member Services-

Well, the problem is, that I started off with a great swan made by the
other person in the signature at the bottom of my original postin.  So,
to do a moose, I will have to create my own.  Argh!

Well, here's my shot, but remember, the last moose I saw was Bullwinkle:

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And for all you Americans that think we in Canada have moose everywhere,
and that we live in igloos, PBBBBT! to you.

-Ian
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|Ian.Stewart,.U1....@cs.mcgill.ca.Tel:737-0680......-####-?.d.@##
|NO,.I'm.NOT.doing.anything.productive.today...Gotta.problem?.|    |..!.|
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In a previous article, ia...@cs.mcgill.ca (Ian Frederic STEWART) says:

>Well, here's my shot, but remember, the last moose I saw was Bullwinkle:
>
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>And for all you Americans that think we in Canada have moose everywhere,
>and that we live in igloos, PBBBBT! to you.

Ian,
	Awesome! And thanks a lot.. Sending it to my girlfriend in Alaska, 
she'll love it.  I've travelled to Canada many a time, and never saw one 
igloo, except in tourist traps.. :)

Jason.
-- 
---------------------------------=--------------------------------------------
Jason A. Bissey                  |-Prairienet's Coordinator of Member Services-
Internet: her...@prairienet.org| "Where in the hell are the singin' cats?!!"
     Also available at "hel...@prairienet.org" for help and information. 

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