Parcels of rebirth

[PrinceMyshkin]

The snap of the coffee.
The rigour of morning.
The poem waiting to be born...

Days are like parcels of rebirth.
Whiffs of yesterday still remain,
of course. We trail past lives,
rumours of having been other, whispers,
whispers...

And we prepare to unwrap
that always mysterious parcel,
today...

[Hawkman]

Another nice little observation, my prince, but I keep wanting to rub out those rows of dots and shove both the whispers on the same line... :D It makes me think that your parcel started to get unwrapped but was then abandoned. I stumble upon it with its contents partially spilled and its ribbons in disarray!

Doesn't mean I don't like it though :D

Best, H

[PrinceMyshkin]

Another nice little observation, my prince, but I keep wanting to rub out those rows of dots and shove both the whispers on the same line... :D It makes me think that your parcel started to get unwrapped but was then abandoned. I stumble upon it with its contents partially spilled and its ribbons in disarray!

Doesn't mean I don't like it though :D

Best, H

I suspect you do not read Simenon, particularly his series of Maigret novels, where the ellipsis is elevated to something like heroic stature (or at least, so I remember them. My cure for a mild case of 'flu is to take to bed with a bowl of chicken soup or a cup of lemon tea, and a Maigret novel).

[Hawkman]

I have read Simenon and have a few Maigret's lurking aomong the boxes which constitute my library, but I am not a fan. I much prefer Agatha Christie, Naigo Marsh and Edmund Crispin. :D

[AuntShecky]

Prince, I'm sure I'm speaking for a large number of LitNutters, when I say that today we "love you more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow," as the old song says. I must, however, agree with the great Hawkman in suggesting that you rethink those dots. The only use of three periods in a row is to indicate that a passage has been left out, as in a newspaper quotation or the like.

[Lumiere]

Prince,
Having just woke, I read this and feel "that always mysterious parcel" to be almost palpable.

Also, I come to trust your poetry; its constant wealth.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Prince, I'm sure I'm speaking for a large number of LitNutters, when I say that today we "love you more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow," as the old song says. I must, however, agree with the great Hawkman in suggesting that you rethink those dots. The only use of three periods in a row is to indicate that a passage has been left out, as in a newspaper quotation or the like.

Yes, of course, that is one, perhaps the primary use of the ellipsis, but surely it is also recognized as a sign for a thought that trails off?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis

[PrinceMyshkin]

I have read Simenon and have a few Maigret's lurking aomong the boxes which constitute my library, but I am not a fan. I much prefer Agatha Christie, Naigo Marsh and Edmund Crispin. :D

But, surely... there is also Josephine Tey, Michael Gilbert, Stieg Larsson and one of the greatest of the missing document novels, The Q Document by the pseudonymous James Hall Roberts.

[Hawkman]

I don't deny their existence, only their inclusion in my library!

[PrinceMyshkin]

I don't deny their existence, only their inclusion in my library!

Well, I don't know you well enough to presume on your taste in reading, whether serious or 'escapist' novels, but if you could get hold of it, most probably via one of the on-line 2nd-hand book sites, I urge you to consider reading The Q Document, by the pseudonymous James Hall Roberts.

Thanks, Lumiere and AuntShecky

[lallison]

ahh, here is the voice of the PM I've come to know and love, softly spoken, philosophical, and full of a humanistic hope and compassion. You at your very best, A+
unbothered by ellipsis (what is the plural for that),
lal

[Bar22do]

ellipses..., to answer lall,

plus

here is a poem I love, with nothing didactic, simple and deep.

Bar

[PrinceMyshkin]

Thanks Bar & Lallison.