Hi Dave,
Thanks for all that. Sounds like a right squalid mess, indeed.
And what a laugh, eh (if you get my meaning).
All the best and peace to you,
Jill
On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 10:28 AM, david.bircumshaw wrote:
> Hi Jill
>
> I can't speak for Dominic on his self-loathing but can say about
> Leicester,
> where he lives as well as me, that it is a very strange place, not for
> nothing does the place name mean Lear's Castle or do said Lear, his
> Cordelia, plus Richard the Third, what a collection, lie supposedly
> buried
> on the banks of our river, tragedy is in our bones, as it were. I often
> think that my being consigned to this dump is a true proof of the
> non-existence of a benign deity, here people are sociable and cold and
> quite
> often completely bonkers, you could starve to death amidst a crowd of
> well-wishers in this town, they'd all talk about something else as you
> died
> before their eyes. And then feel sympathy.
>
> It's a right squalid mess. And also it seems the birthplace of what is
> now
> standard English, that I think is one of the invisible G-d's other
> finesses
> of humour.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> David Bircumshaw
>
> Leicester, England
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 1:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Shite and onions
>
>
> Pfui, yrself. Testosterone isn't evil, nor does does it belong only to
> males. Why the self-loathing?
>
>
> On Saturday, April 5, 2003, at 07:33 AM, Dominic Fox wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, I think I was looking for self-sodomy as voyeuristic
>> spectacle,
>> a mixture of sadism and self-love, wounded narcissism attempting to
>> repair
>> itself through ersatz violence. But who knows? I wrote the whole thing
>> in
>> about five minutes anyway.
>>
>> "Testosterone", pfui. There's a whole cocktail of evil chemicals I
>> metabolize
>> for myself constantly; you have no idea.
>>
>> Dominic
>>
>>
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