so the person from Porlock was just after sweets?
and then Coleridge not only abandoned Kubla Khan, the director's cut, but
flushed his stash down the toilet; to be asked
Hi Sam, got any minties?
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Jill Jones <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 02 January 2005 22:34
Subject: Re: The suckableness of contemporary American poetry
>Hi Ken,
>
>One thing about Minties is that they don't have plain brown wrappers,
>but white, red and green ones which are slightly waxy. One favourite
>bit of sport is to attempt to tear the wrappers in such a way as to
>make one long strip. Whenever I eat a Mintie, which is rare these days,
>I do this almost automatically. Yes, it is very sad, I know. Especially
>when the Person from Porlock is probably knocking on the door.
>
>cheers,
>Jill
>
>
>On Monday, January 3, 2005, at 01:02 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
>> At 12:49 AM 1/2/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>> I'm glad to know that the Minto Review is the most prestigious
>>> journal in
>>> the US, even though I keep misreading it as the Minty Review. This
>>> has
>>> pleasant and very suckable associations for me.
>>>
>>> http://users.chariot.net.au/~dan/minties/about.html
>>
>> Very well, Alison, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to
>> ship
>> several cases of Minties in plain brown wrappers into the States for
>> the
>> Minty-deprived who live here. These little things sound as though they
>> will have an effect upon us akin to the effect laudanum had upon
>> Coleridge. "Kubla Cohen, a dream written under the influence of
>> Minties."
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Kenneth
>> Wolman
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>> Avedon, photographer, 2002
>>
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