>And to david, that was the title of Neruda's poem quoted as epigraph (which
>I suspect you knew...).
Thanks, Douglas - I was riffling through my Neruda books, looking for the
poem, and couldn't find it - I read the line as part of the poem, rather
than an epigraph. No, it's not as bad as everyone's saying, though
turning Neruda's metaphor round like that sort of bothers me - I've a
feeling the earth _is_ being ironed, and not in the sense she wishes -
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