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Susanne is a photographer.
She has made several portraits of authors (poets) many of which have been
published.
Is anybody interested in being portrayed in black and white for portfolios,
brochures or web-pages?
The fees are reasonable. The results will be superb.
(I operate within 100 miles around my town)
Conditions to be discussed on a one-to-one base.
Thank you for the interest :
my tutor will not approve of this initiative.
He told me I should only post poems)
Cheers,
Susanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Goode <[log in to unmask]>
To: the moshpit <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [psycho-geography?]
>
>
> In the exchange re: Big Lenny Woolf that ensued from all this, an
overlookment
> seems to have undergone a takingplacement, which is this:
>
>
> "Paul Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >| the self-regarding,
> > >| pseudo intellectual tosh at the heart of the whole Sinclair
> > >| psycho-geographic project.
> >
> > It looks to me as though Sinclair thinks that coining a phrase is the
same
> > as founding an art.
>
>
> The coined phrase being 'psychogeography'? (Presumably - or am I an
eejit?)
>
> Sinclair is a fine and by no means sluggish minter, but 'psychogeography'
was
> coined (surely - though I haven't the wherewithal to check right now) in
the
> first issue of the _Situationist International_ in, hum, 1958 (? roughly).
>
> Krek me if I'm wrong. Certainly, though, it wasn't Sinclair.
>
> I wouldn't say his interest in psychogeography was *itself* either
> self-regarding or pseudo-intellectual - don't think it can be, truly. In
fact
> no one (with the possible exception of early period Pet Shop Boys) has
> comparably moved the ideas of psychogeo. and the derive into a less
rarefied
> arena, as Sinclair does in _Light's Out..._, which was (and is)
staggeringly
> popular, as any bookseller kno. (Well, any bookseller who's still
permitted by
> head office to sell *books* that have been *written* by *people*.)
>
> If _Asylum_ was rubbish (as I think it was) I feel sure it's to do more
with a
> chain of fear, vanity and improvident lackwittedness in the making and
> commissioning process, than with any pseudishness or apneicism on
Sinclair's
> part.
>
>
> He may be a twit sometimes and have the sort of face you want to slap, but
> he's at least not a big jessie's chemise like Len Woolf.
>
>
> P.S. Talking of thoroughgoing wankers, I read an interview today with the
> novelist Matt Thorne, who's done much better for himself than I have for
my
> part since we were both at university together. He is now, apparently, in
the
> vanguard of a 'school' called the 'New Puritans'. May I quote him?
>
> "We believe prose is the dominant form of expression rather than verse,
that
> books should be set in the present day rather than being historical
fiction,
> the context of the story should be real not made-up, and sentences should
be
> very simple. We're interested in clarity and honesty."
>
> He goes on to compare the whole sorry project to Dogme 95, which we
touched on
> a while ago in these walls.
>
> Has any listmember *ever* read *anything* so *stupid*, so
> beyond-the-imagination *dumb* and *deluded* and *pernicious*? Publishing
this
> sort of manifesto, even on the walls of a public convenience in Kilburn,
ought
> really to constitute a hate crime.
>
> The university, needless to say, was Cambridge, and, needless to say,
Thorne
> didn't stand out *particularly* as a feeble-minded scumbag in that place.
> Persons exactly his equal will be operating on your children in three
years
> and pledging themselves to the pursuit of an ethical foreign policy in
> fifteen.
>
> The last question in the interview:
> Q: What do you rail against?
> A: Narrow-mindedness.
>
> I would write more but, o, I have a nosebleed.
>
> :cx
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>
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