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Thanks very much for the new additions under 'AG Writing,' Renie. Do you know what comes between the numbered poetry of Still Water (1 to 84) and the numbers given to these '13 bits' (807, etc)?
I especially love the poems about Beau - very sweet and very funny. I'd forgotten doing 'the Groucho' myself, but the image of Beau pulling Art along the street like that brings it all back.

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01/03/09 at 08:17 AM

yeah you´re right Jean ... the ones about Beau are soo sweet. I love them. They are so full of love and ardor for little Beau.

BTW .. what is "the groucho"?

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01/03/09 at 09:58 AM

Nicole, it's the way Groucho Marx walks with bent knees and stooped back:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbPyDEcFtM 1:35 to 1:47, and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f01TK_VPAtA

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01/03/09 at 10:23 AM

aaah ... thanks for enlightening me Jean.

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Thanks very much for the new additions under 'AG Writing,' Renie. Do you know what comes between the numbered poetry of Still Water (1 to 84) and the numbers given to these '13 bits' (807, etc)?
I especially love the poems about Beau - very sweet and very funny. I'd forgotten doing 'the Groucho' myself, but the image of Beau pulling Art along the street like that brings it all back.

No I don't. They way they are put on line is the exact way they were given to me by Art.

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Do you know what comes between the numbered poetry of Still Water (1 to 84) and the numbers given to these '13 bits' (807, etc)?

Perhaps the other EuroWalk poems, from 1998 until 2003?
Are those numbered Renie?

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01/05/09 at 11:54 AM

I 'm sorry I don't see any writings on the wall or any other place either.

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01/05/09 at 05:04 PM

???

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01/06/09 at 12:08 AM

I love the poetry. Don't get the reference to writing on the wall. Sorry!

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"The writing on the wall" is an English expression, referring to fate, as if someone who can foretell the future has written what is bound to happen on a wall for all to see. You might say that as a huge piece if Antarctica breaks away and floats off into the ocean, "It's global warming - the writing is on the wall," meaning it's a sign of what is to come.

"And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"

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When I saw our boys on the Grammys together after 10 years, I said "The writing is on the wall"

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01/06/09 at 09:59 AM

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I'm familiar with the expression, I just don't understand what it has to do with the thread!

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I like the one about Rome because I want to go there. He talks about the coliseum
being full of people, that must have been gladiators, I think the place is probably
crumbling badly by now, but I read that people like me who can't do much
walking, they have a new elevator so you can go to the top. These are mostly
poems I think about Europe and have never been to any of those places. I find
them hard to connect to, but reading them over and over I grasp new meanings
from them.
I hear the same songs so often, I find myself using parts of a song because I can't
get it out of my head.

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Gladiators? Art's talking about the final European Old Friends concert, July 31, 2004 - a free show at the Roman Colosseum, attended by 600.000 people (not all Italian by the way )

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"The writing on the wall" is an English expression, referring to fate, as if someone who can foretell the future has written what is bound to happen on a wall for all to see. You might say that as a huge piece if Antarctica breaks away and floats off into the ocean, "It's global warming - the writing is on the wall," meaning it's a sign of what is to come.

"And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"

Thank you, Jean, for that explanation. You helped me to understand that part of SOS better.

This drives me nuts: you can learn a foreign language during our whole life,you will always meet expressions you don't understand, even when you know all the words.

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01/06/09 at 02:03 PM

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I know nothing about the oldfriends concerts except the one DVD, I can't
imagine anyone playing in a place that sounds so dangerous. I'm still waiting for an
oldfriends concert, almost a year now.

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The Roman Colosseum isn't dangerous Jettrink !? It's just a place with a famous history. And unless you go to Australia, I don't think you're going to get your OF concert. I can't believe they played all over the States and you never went to one show !

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Well, to remind you I never even thought of them since 1970 until last winter. It was
only the lucky chance of playing some old cassettes that I wondered what had
happened to them. Everyone I knew was into country music. I still listened to the
Beatles, but very little rock music and even the oldies stations never played them. If
we ever hear them now on the radio my husband and I try to out lyric each other,
he knew songs I had never heard of and still remembered the words. i'm sure I
will see them and I sure can't go to Australia.

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But wasn´t it in the news everywhere? This couldn´t have gone unnoticed.

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Actually we rarely got the newspaper, they did list all the rock groups appearing
in the next month each Sunday, but it was always at Coney Island, which is
outdoors and I don't like the place. They won't let you bring in anything, not even
a bottle of water. I have gone to the US Bank Arena, but they never have groups
or singers, mostly rodeos, monster trucks, the circus, what I saw there was a
Scottish Pipe Regiment. We do have a new theater, but it wouldn't have been
open then. We rarely get big name singers , the people here are crazy over Jimmy
Buffet and he comes every year.

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let me make a guess ... you have no TV.

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There's a Coney Island in Ohio?

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They're not going to do another American or European tour again. They said the last one was to say "goodbye". I know a lot of other people and groups say they wont tour again and they always do, but you know Simon & Garfunkel are more sincere. Paul Simon is writing a new album (we hope), they might do this tour of Australia, they're both heading for 70. We'll be luck if they actually don't retire. Every year on his birthday, I half expect Paul Simon to announce he's retiring. They're not going to come back and do a repeat of OF - it would completely undermine their integrity if they did something like that.

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01/08/09 at 08:35 AM

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Meanwhile, back at "13 Bits"... I'm really intrigued by the numbering. Could it mean there is a notebook full of hundreds of other "bits" waiting to be be published? Is it already typed up? Could we see any more of them, please, be they from the Eurowalk or other observations of life anywhere?

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I'd say the number 13 is important. How many albums does he have ? How many countries has he walked in ? Maybe it represents 13 snippets of different parts of his life. I can't find the "13 Bits" on his website anyway, where is it ?

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Yes, Renie we have a Coney Island here no doubt named after the original. I've
been to the real one many times when it was still an amusement park, we would
drive all the way down to NYC. I don't think it's operating anymore. Coney Island
here is a small amusement park for those who don't want to pay the big bucks
for King's Island.

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Yes, I know i'm very sad over missing the old friends tour, I keep thinking of that
song line "can you imagine us when we are 70?" I can remember Paul McCartney
getting flack over writing "When I'm 64." McCartney is still performing and he's
about the same age as Art and Paul.

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Yes, I know i'm very sad over missing the old friends tour, I keep thinking of that
song line "can you imagine us when we are 70?" I can remember Paul McCartney
getting flack over writing "When I'm 64." McCartney is still performing and he's
about the same age as Art and Paul.

I'm the same way as you, I can't believe I haven't discovered S&G sooner and now I've missed my chance to see them live.

Luckily I've been a Beatles fan since 1995 and I've seen Paul McCartney in concert quite a few times at least. He's only one year younger than Art & Paul.

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Unless they do a benefit concert ... you could try to get tickets.

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Yes, since Artie left off at 84 in his book and now we see numbers in the 800's - maybe he is saving all of these to publish in another book. Let's hope so! I would love to have a copy as he is a wonderful writer; such beautiful writing. Artie, please publish another book

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Marcia, 13 bits: http://www.artgarfunkel.com/13bits.html

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Paul Gauguin lived in Tahiti, that's who he's referring to in the last poem.

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I thought that the numbers in "13 bits" were the dates of the year, and that one of the "bits" was written a year and a day after their reunion tour in Rome. Am I way off base?

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Oops.... I just visited the Writings page and spotted the "862".... guess I've been off the board for too long and my brain is rusty!

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Lol! Glad to have you back Kathy!

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Hope to visit the board more often... first grandchild (boy) last August and time has swirled by since then!

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Congratulations on your first grandchild, Kathy. Take time to visit us more often.

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