Yeah, Williams/Hingis was a great match.
I can also highly recommend the Eksteins book, which is full of interesting
stuff. For example, for those who know Thomas's Adlestrop, there's a piece
of contemporary journalism quoted about involvement/disengagement which uses
the image of getting on and off trains. Made me rethink the poem anyway.
Go Venus!
cheers
David
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From: Douglas Clark <[log in to unmask]>
To: Poetryetc <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 04 July 2000 16:37
Subject: Wimbledon
>Power is all. The Williams sisters are through. A tremendous battle
>between Hingis and Venus but in the end Venus was too strong.
>Like Henman and Philpoulss (sp?) last night artistry was defeated
>by pure strength.
>
>Which brings me to a marvellous book I have just finished (now for
>DAvid Cannadines essays, his Class was brilliant): Modris Eksteins,
>Rites of Spring, which is about the cultural background to the
>Great WAr culminating in Adolf. A brilliant book. In the Paul Fussell
>class. And a friend in the pub today (two pubs so far for me, one
>more after six o'clock) revealed himself as a Hitler-lover. I have
>been suspicious of him for some time cos of his hatred of the Jews
>(I and my mother had Jewish girl/boy friends in Glasgow and I love
>the Jewish family life) so I regaled him with stories about how
>`Heil SCicklgrubber' didnt sound right and how ADolf was a very poor
>housepainter who was forced to go into politics.
>But Eksteins book (1989) is one to note and I must look out for
>more of him.
>
>And also the current NYRB is very good with an exceptional esay
>by Amartya Sen. But my poetry books from Amazon didnt arrive
>this morning (breathe easy Roddy) so I am stuck with the tennis
>till I go out to the pub for a meal aT 6 o'clock.
>
>And the poetry class at Bath Spa University College is headed by
>Jeremy Hooker (who had a stroke recently) and Philip Gross,
>so it bears up with its competitors.
>
>Sorry to gossip on but I have been talking all day.
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