I know what you're saying David, but I'd hesitate to link a term like
"literary blindness" to Darwin. A lovely writer.
best
Randolph Healy
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From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: Supernatural
> I think it particularly apt that, on the twists and twines of cheerful
> reflections and unfashionable thoughts, we have ended up on the verge of
> going to see a horror movie.
> I have spoken to the local elves about this, while they were not busy
> pretending to be bus-stops, and they assure me this is because of a
certain
> timorousness among today's poets, in being afraid of complaining about
> Darwin's literary blindness, and thereby acquiescing to Extinctions of
> Species.
> Such as the Tawny Rogue Bard or the Greater Spotted Prophet.
> Creatures whose habitats, like the elves, have been made marginal by the
> Advancement of Science.
>
> david bircumshaw
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