It was the 80-year-old in Arizona who aroused the fright of slavery in me.
It was quickly squashed by the Scottish geneaology experts who approved of
my summation of the great T.C.Smout's opinion that in SCotland kinship
over-rode master-servant relationships and that slavery, in the English
sense, didnt exist.
To return to the search for G-d for the second time in my life I saw this
young girl's face in the street in Bath yesterday and experienced
trasncendentalism. There cant have been half-a-dozen women' faces in sixty
years that had that 'in love' effect upon me. It must be a reflection of my
mother's face when I was very very young. THis experience is the nearest I
have ever got to G-d. The sad thing is that only one of these women has
reciprocated and she soon changed her mind. That is why Isabel Colegates
book of last week featuring the mystics whom Alison's Speculata is about was
so interesting. I believe very very few people enjoy the transcendental
experience and in my case it is not religious but sexual. That is why I was
a love poet and have no inclination to write poetry when I am not in love.
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
Lynx: Poetry from Bath ......
... http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/lynx.html
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