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From: Geraldine Monk <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Cc: british poets <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, July 15, 2000 10:31
Subject: Re: Foil
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>From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 08:34
>Subject: Foil
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> Get it, devour it, then get back to the mailbase about the
>longest contribution, from top hatted mystic Aidan Dun. I want to know what
>others on the list think of Aidan's material>
>Tim Allen
Well Tim I did. So what DID you think of what I thought? Were you
being rhetorical or are you collecting secret data? Just curious at
absence of comeback. (Not that I want to enter into lengthy discussions
of the lack and lackadays of Mr Dun's writing but I did take the trouble
to peruse at your pressing).
Geraldine
I wrote:
>Oh dear Tim, I wish I hadn't taken you up on this because I hate to be
>unkind to
>anyone. It's a bit like reading someone who never made it out of the
>1960's.
>I got Bob Dylan's 'Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' going through me mind and wished
>I was listening to that rather than reading Mr. Dun.
>Would it be very unkind if I said I found it pseudo-mystical tosh with not
>much
>feel for the 'physical' beauty and rhythm of language:
>
>'The subterranean aspects of Pentonville involve
>the alchemical hill-chamber and underground watchtower
>of Merlin, a deep laboratory of Grail-science.'
>
>Oh dearie me. I gave up and took up reading James Thomson's 'City of
>Dreadful Night' to restore my faith in visionary mystics.
>Sorry not to be more positive. I'm sure he has avid fans somewhere.
>Geraldine
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