At 10:25 20/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Re. liking or disliking favourite poets:
>
>On a motoring holiday somewhere around Sligo, an
>acquaintance of mine (a scholar specialising in Yeats)
>picked up a hitchhiker. The hitcher turned out to be
>an American student who had just completed a thesis
>on Yeats. He expressed a desire to visit the great man's
>grave. Delighted to discover this common enthusiasm,
>John said he would be happy to take the young man there.
>
>On arrival at the grave site, the bloke promptly whipped
>out his equipment, pissed on the grave, and exclaimed:
>"That's for the last four years, you bastard!"
Unfortunately, there is some doubt as to whether Yeats (in toto or even
partially) is actually in that grave--the student may have unwittingly
bespattered the remains of a few poor Frenchies.
Alex
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