Well, I am still confounded by the unwillingness of those who asked for the play (and presumeably received it) to enter the fray with some intelligent comment about the play... though the point is well-made, and I apologise for NOT sending the URL, which I did not have when I first started sending the play out to those asking for it. I am new to the Net myself and didn't realise that the attachments were causing such problems. Apart from Alexander asking me to re-send, I never heard from anyone complaining that they could not open the attachment, so I obviously assumed (wrongly) that it worked. Once again, I apologise for this. For those of you whose patience hasn't been worn so thin as to make any approach to this play anathema, you can read the complete text at my site... URL http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=129973 There is also a play about Eisenstein, who was - I believe - the cinema's equivalent to Pound. Their ideas re: ideogrammatic method and montage are strikingly similar, though their temperaments are completely different. If Pound is the father of modern poetry, Eisenstein is the father of modern cinema... and both for exactly the same reasons. You will also find the work-in-progress, PAIDEUMA, at the same site and a selection of poems, SINGING THE SNAKE, which I wrote from my years of living among the Pintupi (an Aboriginal tribe) in Central Australia. Please let me know if the URL number doesn't work!!! Best regards Stoneking . ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 8:14 AM Subject: Re: the Stoneking Play > Different systems handle large files in different ways. > > When I receive a very large file attached to an email message, the mail system > on the *server* gets corrupted: a flag that needs to be reset is not reset > until the email is downloaded and deleted. Until I download and delete the > offending message, all of my email messages continue to appear as unread, over > and over and over, until I phone technical support. If they happen to be > busy, I must wait on hold for longer than it would take to read a short > one-act play. > > I don't mind Billy Stoneking's attempts to promote his work on this list (as > long as it relates to Pound, which it does) but would ask him to use the > etiquette followed worldwide for such lists as this: no attachments. Send us > the URL. > > I began reading his play but had to set it aside because of other pressing > obligations. I'd reached the point where the young female psychiatrist > arrives. Divertente, I thought, these skewed planes of consciousness. But his > paideuma posting from last week gave me an excedrin headache. God, how I hate > that sort of prose! > > Tim Romano > > --Come my cantilations, > Let us dump our hatreds into one bunch and be done with them. >