{"id":3596,"date":"2005-02-06T12:12:25","date_gmt":"2005-02-06T16:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/02\/06\/hum-in-place-of-words\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:00","slug":"hum-in-place-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/02\/06\/hum-in-place-of-words\/","title":{"rendered":"hum in place of words"},"content":{"rendered":"

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crackling beach fire —
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dwindling fire —
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starry starry night —
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Michael Dylan Welch<\/FONT><\/A> from The Heron’s Nest<\/A><\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT>crackling beach fire<\/FONT><\/A>”  (Dec. 2004); “<\/FONT>dwindling fire<\/FONT><\/A>”  (Oct. 2004); <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“<\/FONT>starry starry night<\/FONT><\/A>” (March 2004)<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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at the sink<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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squinting at sunrise<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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and saturday’s dishes<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV>
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one-breath pundit<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/DIV>
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Prof. B. keeps asking<\/A> for it . . . \"coin<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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but the f\/k\/a<\/EM> gang is still free-riding over at Bainbridge’s place,<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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despite Steve’s cute-pet-ploy<\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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\"tiny  <\/FONT>Point of Law pointed<\/FONT><\/A> out the reference to med-mal reform<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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in the Illinois State of the State speech this week.  It reminds<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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us that Ill. favorite son Sen. Barack Obama<\/A> has not yet responded<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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to our many requests (<\/FONT>beginning<\/FONT><\/A> Aug. 4, 2004) for his position<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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on tort reform.  Maybe <\/FONT>Rick Klau<\/FONT><\/A> will ask him again on Monday.<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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\"noYabutsSN\"  <\/FONT><\/SPAN> <\/STRONG>No surprise:  The NYC smoking ban has not hurt bars and    <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P>
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restaurants.  (NYT<\/EM> <\/FONT>article<\/FONT><\/A>; via <\/FONT>O. Kerr<\/FONT><\/A> at VC)<\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

crackling beach fire —we hum in place of wordswe can’t recall     dwindling fire —our conversation shiftsto death     starry starry night —unfinished art school paintingsin the dumpster   Michael Dylan Welch from The Heron’s Nest “crackling beach fire”  (Dec. 2004); “dwindling fire”  (Oct. 2004); “starry starry night” (March 2004)       by dagosan:   at the sink squinting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-W0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3596\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}