From: "William Herbert" <[log in to unmask]>
> Was anyone on the list an alter boy?
I did once sing soprano in the Old School Song --
Play that song again, Sam,
It's late and my eyes are wet.
No more, sophomore, will I roar.
Oh heck,
Wee Eck's
been eliminated
In favour of Pokeman.
No more!
> Actually I did copy Great-great-great-Uncle George's techniques on the
wing
> in _Cabaret McGonagall_ (United FC), though you'll have to put your
monitors
> on one side to get the full effect:
And the last issue of NiK (sic!) carried a banner from the Situationists
[though I didn't know it at the time].
Whaur's yir Gee Debord then, noo?
Cheers
Robin Hamilton
[I dedicate this post to Billy Patterson who, before he became famous as
the Ice Cream Man, had an uncle who sneezed for two weeks running in +The
Sunday Post+)
[and I +know+ that's obscure, but mibee Bill H. will get the joke ...]
> _An epithalamium of wings_
>
> In Ripon, Melrose, Gigha, by Loch Tay,
> our wedding bed was spread across
> two countries and four days.
> One angel's voice
> still says
>
> this: 'Feir
> God. Fle from Sin.
> Mak for the Life Ever-
> lesting to the End.' His words carved in
> a Borders doorframe, ordering, unclear.
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Goode <[log in to unmask]>
> To: the moshpit <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 06 April 2000 12:19
> Subject: editorial lines
>
>
> >
> >
> >[this backchannelled to robin only in error (twice!) previously]
> >
> >
> >
> >>>>"Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >But god bless Carcanet (for once)
> >
> >Robin, can you say more about this? Or would others care to? I'm sure
it's
> a
> >stigma of my not having spent enough time rummaging through loam and
gravel
> >looking for pamphleted marginalia: but - as I've said before in this
> space -
> >the Carcanet list has abetted my autodidactic fancies more than any
other
> >comparably distributed press. Am I an outlier in this community to feel
> such?
> >This is not a squeak of defensiveness, I'm just curious.
> >
> >
> >>>>Come back Herbert's (George, not Bill) "Alter Wings"
> >
> >This is my favourite typo of the year so far. Should there be a prize?
> Might
> >give us something *even slighter* to worry about.
> >
> >:cx
> >
> >------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >Chris Goode
> >Director, _signal to noise_
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> >
> >
> >"Yes, my real name is Jordan. I just thought that Taylor would bring out
> the
> >color of my eyes." - Taylor Hanson
> >
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