Dear Bill,
Bravo! I am writing to this list from my new vantage point in the outer
suburbs in San Francisco, having moved here from Melbourne. Hugh is the only
person I know on this list, and I write too much because I don't yet have a
work visa. How glum that makes me, I cannot describe. But! On the bright
side, I get to learn a lot from others on this list. And concentrate on my
poems, which is what I'd be thinking about whilst waitressing or whatever
anyhow.
I would add too that I have thought the list clique-like at times, but
generally only after I've lost an argument, or because I've been staring at
the computer for too long. They say you should get up every 20 minutes,
stretch and stare off into the distance to help avoid eye strain.
Cheers,
Cassie
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 11:03:03 +0100, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Dear Sheenagh,
>
> I don't think many of us know each other personally outside the list
(it's
> that old separate continents thing), and use the list to begin to
discover
> stuff -- opinions, poetry. Mostly we get opinions, but there's also the
(to
> me) fascinating glimpses of the poetry scenes elsewhere. There's also a
> great deal of divergence of said opinions on most topics raised, which I
for
> one appreciate and enjoy. A lot of people who don't know each other very
> well and don't agree with each other either -- doesn't sound like a
clique
> to me, but maybe it takes time to experience what degree of diversity
there
> is. I suspect 'cliquey' is always going to be the tough way to say
'hello'.
> But hello anyway.
>
> As for how often I'm posting: guilty and ashamed. My university term
> finished a fortnight ago, since when I've been feverishly 'returning' to
my
> own work and some projects that have been set aside for rather too long.
The
> list operates at the moment for me as a frequent refuge from the Wall
> (Hadrian's rather than the Floyd's), which I'm variously climbing,
banging
> my skull off, vaulting over, chucking stuff over, being hit on the head
by
> stuff someone else who is possibly me is chucking over, and marching up
and
> down squinting at the shrubbery from. No-one else is nearby, though Jo
> Shapcott was at that Temple of Mithras a couple of months back. They
didn't
> let her in -- cliquey Roman military spectral bastards!
>
> Anyone else want to describe how they're contributing at present?
>
> Best,
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sheenagh Pugh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 9:26 AM
> Subject: post from R Lumsden I've only just noticed
>
>
> > As for what I think of the list, I do think there's a
> > cliquey feel to some of it, mainly caused by the fact
> > that a few people seem to be able to spend all day
> > doing little but reading it and writing to it. They
> > must have very accommodating bosses! But your response
> > of, more or less, "bugger off then", seems illogical -
> > if everyone who feels like an outsider did that,
> > wouldn't it be even more cliquey?
> >
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