Could you post it, Matthew? I looked for it in the three
Muldoon collections I have and, not finding it, am all the
more curious to read it now, especially given your description
here. As for the title's significance, well, as a former inmat--
I mean, student--of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary (For Wayward Catholic
Girls), I can tell you when Holy Thursday is: the day before Good
Friday (i.e., Last Suppertime), which certainly seems to accord
with the restaurant scene in a trademark black-humorous Muldoonian
way.
Cheers,
Candice
At 06:15 PM 10/8/00 +0100, you wrote:
>Thanks for this suggestion, Alison. It does sound very promising, but I
>still can't quite see the connection (I often have this trouble with
>Muldoon). The sonnet is about a couple who are the last diners left in a
>restaurant as they talk through the breakup of their relationship. Meanwhile
>the waiter is having his own dinner and then gets up and acts the waiter
>again at his own table, bowing to his absent self. There's a clear link to
>food, and perhaps also to social inequality, but I'm probably missing
>something.
>
>Best wishes
>
>Matthew
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: 07 October 2000 03:40
>Subject: Re: Holy Thursday
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>>>Has anyone got any idea why this sonnet by Paul Muldoon is so called?
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>>I don't know the sonnet, so this may be way offline - but it might have
>>something to do with Blake?
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>>Is this a holy thing to see
>>In a rich & fruitful land
>>Babes reduced to misery
>>Fed with cold and usurous hand
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>>(Holy Thursday)
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>>Strike any bells?
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>>Best
>>
>>A
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