> It's all a bit of a storm in a tea-cup. What's interesting to me is
> the overall preciousness of Prynne that comes out.
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> Roger
Mind you, when Tom Leonard first read the Six Glasgow Poems in Philip
Hobsbaum's flat at Wilton Street in Glasgow in I think 1966, Philip's
immediate reaction was to leap across the room and drag out a reel-to-reel
tape recorder and insist Tom immediately reread them into a microphone. In
case Tom fell under a bus on the way home and they were lost forever.
So is it preciousness (lovely word, and I'm quite prepared to believe it of
Prynne) or a desire to preserve something for posterity that might otherwise
be lost?
(Or that the danger of falling under a bus in Glasgow was higher than the
same thing happening at Sparty Lea. Did Sparty Lea have buses, even?)
Robin
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