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From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 March 2004 18:41
Subject: Re: Irony and Height
>Did you forgive your mother, Lawrence?
sure
nothing to forgive
i didnt remember tho i do have a few early memories
she told me when i asked her if i had ever had a chair up in the air... she
seemed surprised and i said i could remember banging my spoon on a plate and
my parents who were sort of in and out (presumably stopping me listening to
the news) coming into the room together - apparently bacon had been
mentioned
this was confirmed as being possible but she seemed surprised that i cld
remember such a thing
what else could i remember and i suggested sitting in a pram with various
bits and pieces and that elicited a photo; but maybe i had seen that photo
before or been told about it - man in battersea park earning a crust or 2
but the banging the plate is, I believe, a fragment of a real memory, a
little video even
i can also remember descending from a great height trailing what i can only
describe as clouds of glory, but i dont know what that could be
recently, waiting for a bus to depart i saw a child gesture - mum offered a
hat and the child rejected the idea as ridiculous... and a little bit of the
painted veil of forgetfulness lifted and i recalled somehow ME doing that
when very young but i dont know where
>Or more to the point, if your
>step-daughter didn't hold it against you ...
i'm not sure she remembered it...
>I'm glad to discover I'm not the only parent who accidentaly bounced their
>Darling Child on the cold hard stone.
I was bounced on concrete, Bea on wood
there's more give in wood
>
>(Or strictly speaking with Catherine, tarmac.)
tarmac flows but not so you'd notice
wood's probably the safest
L
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