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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 08:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Russell Gilman-Hunt <conchobar@rocketmail.com>
Subject: minstrel: re: reading/reciting
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The lucid and remarkable Tangwystyl wrote:
>Hmmm. Explain to me the distinction you make between "reading" and
>"reciting" a poem, and I'll tell you how I feel about it. 

Well, I am happily able to attend Amergin's Revenge again this year,
and I would like to perform more than once.  I have a couple of pretty
good poems, and don't want to have to choose which one to "perform."
I would like to perform them both.  But I have about 3 weeks until that
date, and my other lives are, well, full, right now, and I worry that 
I won't have the time to memorize both poems.  So I could "read" one
of them (actually, mostly memorize, using a piece of paper as a
crutch) and perform the other...  does that make sense?

On the other hand, my memorizing of my "Connla of the fiery hair" poem
is going well, since it uses some internal structure typical to Irish
poetry (well, ok, oral traditions) and that makes it easier for me to
remember which line comes after which one.

Conchobar

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