Alison noted:
>But no doubt it explains a certain saturnine fearlessness in your own
>poems, Mr Howard.
Yes, my gloominess is so polished it shines; drunken sailors have been
known to navigate to safe harbour on it.
>
>Am I imagining it, or are the men on the list retailing tales of 40s
>woe, and the women recounting more positive experiences?
The explanation being that the males are so woeful because of encounters
with women-of-a-certain-age, those same women whose 'more positive
experiences' are the males.
David
(running for cover)
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