I had a piano teacher in the 1980s who'd been at school with Reading. He
said the two of them were thrown together a lot because they were both
considered seriously weird (a condition I'm all in favour of), so they used
to go bird-watching together.
best joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 1:14 AM
Subject: Reading Reading
> Nice distillation Dominic!
>
> You forgot the:
>
> Always call flora and fauna by its proper latin name, you romantic
> Idiots.
>
> I find the tendency towards epigram the most appealing long-term in
> Reading.
>
> There's a review of Ukelele Music on amazon which reads:
>
> 1 Star Not for people interested in ukulele music but in poetry, July 8,
> 1998
> Reviewer: A reader from Wash DC
> Was looking for some listing of old songs with ukulele chords. Not this
> book! Poetry along the archie and mehitabel line. A few interspersed
> paragraphs, starting on page 20, about how to hold and strum and finger
> the
> uke and that's it! 95% is avant garde post modern 'poetry' if that is what
> you are looking for. --
>
>
>
>>Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 19:10:31 +0000
>>From: Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Reading Reading
>>
>>Dear me,
>>this Peter Reading is depressing
>>innit?
>>
>>Skinheads are nasty, but you're no better.
>>Or if you are, it won't do any good
>>in the end. The *end*, d'you hear?
>>
>>What's that? "Your point, exactly?"
>>There isn't any bleeding point,
>>you poof. (There's a hundred or so
>>pages of this _Collected Poems_ to go).
>>Your effete notions won't preserve
>>your mortal body from the grave,
>>(though these bovver-boys, half-
>>witted hooligans and assorted
>>rustics-gone-mental may get you there sooner).
>>Yes. You and your dear sweet grannie. And her budgie.
>>
>>Cancer's pretty fucking awful, too.
>>Did I mention that? Just checking.
>>
>>Dominic
>>
>>--
>>// Alas, this comparison function can't be total:
>>// bottom is beyond comparison. - Oleg Kiselyov
>>
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