martin figura - a poet from norwich - was both an accountant and in
the army. an interesting combination, particularly when faced with
arts administrators who were mostly liberal majors.
roger
On 1/14/06, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I like to look at things from as many angles as possible.
>
> >A mechanism of argument
> > which ignores the bulk of a post in order to quarrel with a tiny part of
> it
> > taken out of context, a mechanism which is peculiar to trolling. A refusal
> > to see that this behaviour is discourteous or to take responsibility for
> it,
> > also peculiar to trolls.
>
> I was just this afternoon looking through 'The Art of Discworld' by Paul
> Kidby, with comments by Pratchett. I was intrigued that Terry Pratchett
> considers Sergeant Detritus ( a troll, for those who don't know) the most
> successful of the Discworld characters, even better than The Luggage, DEATH,
> or Igor.
>
> So obviously trolls strike human chords too. Even if they do enter houses by
> walking through (demolishing) the walls.
>
> Slightly boggled here as tonight I was treated by a reading by a guy called
> Rob Evans who is, apart from quite a competent performance poet, definitely
> a good reader, who is, I repeat to take a breath, also by day a big hat in
> the defence industry.
>
> Yup, this was a poet who designs precision weapons to pay the mortgage
> (appropriate soundpunny word: mort).
>
> As a good deal of the audience were also either Quakers or Green Party
> members his opening three poems, which were essentially in defence of
> high-tech weaponry, the effect of this was, well, rather like that film/tv
> cliche where all the characters freeze open-mouthed at ....
>
> But he was also quite a good poet, his final set was made of elegies for
> people he had lost, they were genuinely moving.
>
> Paradoxes upon paradoxes.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
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