Thanks Peter,
great stuff on JH.
More importantly the best funereal joke of the year so far.
Seriously though, the section of Prynne's address which I jumped up at when
I read it before xmas rudely interrupted was this:
"It is always sad when a voice you know falls silent, but there are some
voices who never fall silent. His voice will survive as long as his readers
draw breath and turn the pages of his work."
I'm wondering if others here might care to comment, as the conflation of
voice with silence seems overbearing and hermetic in the extreme. It seems
to me the other side of the coin tossed by Andrew Duncan in respect of
'noise'. It does serve to underline Peter's portrait of invisibility. That
notorious reading at Sparty Lea must haunt him sore. And yet I'm told he
read in Bristol last year, is that true?
What I wonder most strongly is how Jeremy would view his performances when
writing and the traces or residues of presence that lie on a given page???
love and love
cris
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