Of course! Aargh! We usually call it Maundy Thursday over here, but I had
assumed it was the same day. The connection with the Last Supper hadn't
occurred to me. (I blame the attack of flu I'm having at the moment.) Bet
you anything you like he called it Last Supper first and then decided he was
being too obvious.
As for posting it, can I have a ruling, please, JK? I think in the past it's
been policy not to post whole poems on the list without the author's
permission. I have it in the New Selected Poems, so I'm not sure at the
moment which collection it's in.
Best wishes
Matthew
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From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 08 October 2000 19:14
Subject: Re: Holy Thursday
>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
>>
>>
>>>>Has anyone got any idea why this sonnet by Paul Muldoon is so called?
>>>
>>>I don't know the sonnet, so this may be way offline - but it might have
>>>something to do with Blake?
>>>
>>>Is this a holy thing to see
>>>In a rich & fruitful land
>>>Babes reduced to misery
>>>Fed with cold and usurous hand
>>>
>>>(Holy Thursday)
>>>
>>>Strike any bells?
>>>
>>>Best
>>>
>>>A
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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