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From: "Rebecca Seiferle" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:46 AM
Subject: Re: Half Cocks: I've Not Heard It Called That Before
> Thanks for this, Dominic, it's great to be allowed a look into your
> engagement
> with Hill's work, its oddities, its like and unlike intersections with
> yourself, the
> intense reading while allowing
>
>> my own imaginative
>>concerns be formed or deformed somewhat in the process,
>
> it's very generous and your reading of his work is very compelling, so
> I'll have to
> go back to it, feeling as if I'd missed something, perhaps
>
>>all of the little cats from under
>>the Cat in the Hat's hat running around disarranging one's mental
>>furniture.
>
> For I've not read him well and so think of him in terms of 'the natural
> scenery'
> which you note, but which is sort of off putting to me, and it may be just
> that
> I've come across his work at several removes, that the 'natural scenery'
> part
> would get here first or be more emphasized, so thanks for this,
>
> Rebecca
Make sure you read 'Funeral Music' and 'Mercian Hymns'. To me these are his
best work.
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