I recall, Dom, a guy I used to know who was a student of His Hillness at
Leeds - the guy claimed that GH had a poster of John Betjeman in his rooms
at which he used to throw darts.
While wearing dark glasses.
Best
dave
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From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Sex and the Artist
> And here I thought you were going to say "Geoffrey Hill,"
I'm just imagining an alternative to Grange Hill, full of morose
students earnestly studying Marsilio Ficino and Hobbes and exchanging
Latin quips.
("Little Britain" has a school called "Kelsey Grammar"...)
There is of course a degree of continuity between the schoolboy humour
(very much orientated towards puns and Bergsonian pratfalls) of Danger
Mouse and the sometimes very submerged line of wit in Hill's poetry.
'Struth, DM! You don't mean...?
Dominic
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