Ah it must be nice to have a reputation -to have done something wonderful
like running starkers in the middle of a wimbledon tennis match finals -hey
that's a thought -perhaps next year???
P unreputed P
Ps I have been enjiying BBC 4 serious on sf young Ian Banks sounded sane
the other day &triffids -quatermass-jon pertwee dr who back (of course I
know you academics don't have time for that sort of thing -out making
millions reading all over the world book singeings :-)
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Ah, reputations! I wasn't thinking of that so much, as of the strange
persistence of the cohesive Romantic I. But I wonder why poets guard
their reputations so jealously? I can't help thinking of Victorian
ladies. Life's pretty good when you're ruined, says I...
All best
A
On 11/21/06, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No doubt you're right, but I'm in the liberating position of not having a
> reputation to worry about.
>
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:12:51 +1100, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> >Hey Jon, people don't trust poets who play with style/personae/form.
[...]
>
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