Ah, Arni, if only we had known. It's not that nobody in Leicester is open to
culture, there are individuals here and there awide, it's that the general
ambience is so negative. It even includes some who write poetry, though too
there are some lovely people scattered around. But as for the coldness,
jeez, it doesn't matter if you are a 'bloody foreigner', say what you think,
it needs to be said. This frigid-hearted country needs to be told what it
looks like to others, I feel like a foreigner here myself, and I'm English.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
Home Page
A Chide's Alphabet
Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/index.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Árni Ibsen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: A pome ...
on 12/2/02 1:34 AM, david.bircumshaw at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> A very curious way to play truant, true, Arni. My adventures then did also
> include Egyptian and Norse mythology, essentially I grew up in a cultural
> desert, and I live in one still.
I think, a few years back, you and I, possibly, lived just around the corner
from each other! Now, had we known that then, there would be no talk about a
'cultural desert'!
> One thing I envy about other places is the
> openness of cultural dissemination, I've noticed this in France, Spain and
> recently in Australia, here in England there is a kind of cult of
> not-talking about things, if you pry and prise people enough you will find
> they've read all sorts of things, but in conversation they are more
> interested in talking about property values, if anything.
It's possibly a 'northern thing', Dave. And even an 'island thing', so if we
have a 'northern island situation', we're properly quacked. Both of us.
> There is a coldness in the heart of this land, and its frigid winds blow
> through every reave of the soul.
I will not object to this, Dave. It's even colder than a certain island I'm
all too familiar with. But, being a 'bloody foreigner', I'll refrain from
elaborating.
Best
Árni
--
Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
|