Nearing the end (was Re: An invitation to Diane)

> > Well, it was four lines when I received it, but that was pretty early i=
n
> > the chain.  I must admit to possibly messing it up in fitting it to
> > Kassi' poetic standards.  The first three lines just happened to work
> > out, but the last one I had to slightly paraphrase, turning a
> > wh-question into a yes/no question (who ...? to "does a person exist wh=
o
> > ..?")
>=20
> Nik... button it!  <G> Josh and Fabian haven't translated it
> yet, and there should be no public clues as to even its most trivial
> parts.  Whether it has questions in it, whether it mentions this or
> that... shut up already! <GGGG>
> Sally
Not to worry, Sally -- by the time the poem got to me, line #4 wasn't even
vaguely a question!  Had a bit of an ill-fitting element in it, though,
like a sudden reference to ice hockey in a poem about daisies (well, not
quite that extreme.  I'll shut up now).
I just sent an Arov=EBn version off to Fabian -- may it be less painful to
decipher than Carlos' was!  "A B all C'ed", eh?  Hmm, is this "all A's C'd =
the
B's", or "the A's C'ed all the B's", or... alright, I'm really going to
shut up now.

JJS :-)