Patrick
I suspect these stalls of theatrical Grandpas are actually avatars tempted onto this material plane by metaphorical bottles of
ghostly white whines.
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick McManus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "'david.bircumshaw'" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 6:22 PM
Subject: RE: Bring back censorship
Davros---Must confess here that I have not actually been to a theater
theatre (except my own poetry readings) since about 1970
He says huffily and I don't like chockies but a suitable bottle disguised as
newspaper in the stalls could tempt (white plonk around 11% cool from Oz)
Cheers patrick let's see where my bloody compuetr will send this email this
time
-----Original Message-----
From: British & Irish poets [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of david.bircumshaw
Sent: 10 January 2005 17:53
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Subject: Re: Bring back censorship
The irrefutable solution to the problem on the box is not to have a box in
the first place, which happy state I have subsisted in
these last 16 months. I read Primo Levi instead of watching the Thing. Of
course, if you go the theatre, especially one choc-a-bloc
with Patricks, well .....
(grin)
Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
Spectare's Web, A Chide's Alphabet
& Painting Without Numbers
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: Bring back censorship
Geraldine:
> God forbid Robin! What if you're stuck in the middle row of a long-long
row
> full of adoring Patricks (sorry Patrick!) how do you get out if it's even
> worse than on the box.
You grit your teeth and don't come back after the first interval.
I'm not saying it *would* have worked on stage -- maybe yes, maybe no, my
son was more charitable than me here and said he'd probably have gone to see
it if it were on in London while he was there.
But on the box, it was simply -- forget the blasphemy, forget the
swearing -- simply catastrophically *boring*.
Robin
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