Yes, yes, sorry, Max, my mistake: Sparrow. (Swallow is more an Erica
Jong title ...)
We can't buy 'normal' cheese. Heren they do make something they call
'cheese' - but it ain't. Mainland cheese was bought in Beijing at a
gourmet store :-)
Andrew
On 06/09/06, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Not having heard of MDRussell I have just googled her...interesting...but not
> Swallow. Sparrow, however.
>
> Goodness, Mainland cheese. I buy it constantly in Melbourne because it's a NZ
> export and my little native country needs help.
>
> I hope you send goodies up to your kind American mates, Andrew.
> (And thanks for the response to my chainsaw lines.)
>
> Max in Melbourne
>
>
> Quoting andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> > _Rapunzel, Rapunzel,
> > Let down your plastic bucket …_
> >
> > Next door,
> > Three floors up
> > And kind-hearted,
> > My American mates
> > Have devised a pulley system:
> > They feed a tough string line
> > Out their balcony window
> > And lower a bucket.
> > Last night it was
> > 'Swallow' by Mary Doria Russell;
> > The night before
> > Two candles and lighters,
> > A torch because
> > The power had gone out;
> > The night before the night before
> > A block of Mainland cheese,
> > Gold in these parts.
> > No need for electrickery:
> > Just drop down
> > And haul up.
> >
> > Necessity gives birth again.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.bam.com.au/andrew
> >
>
>
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