"Bavarian Gentians" lingers in my memory after all these years. I was
young at the time and thought it rather good. I still quite like this:
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower
Roger
On 12/16/05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Complete agreement about the novels. Some of the short stories, and the
> > poems, stand up considerably better.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > Mark
>
> I don't get this, Mark -- for all of me, the only thing that stands up to
> rereading is +The Rainbow+. (+Women in Love+ is a fascist joke.) The short
> stories are clever, but then so was O. Henry (whom I'd rather reread). As
> for the poems -- best that can be said for them is that they suck.
>
> As for, dear god, DHL's paintings ...
>
> :-(
>
> Robin
>
> (not a DHL fan)
>
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