thanks very much Max.
google's slim repertoire tells me that HD Rawnsley is good stuff.
KS
On 16/01/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks, Kasper,
>
> And this line of yours is beautiful:
>
> moving to western Helsinki with my girlfriend on the first of feb.
>
> Best wishes from Max
>
> On 16/1/08 9:35 PM, "kasper salonen" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > very serene & rich with imagery. the endling line is pretty beautiful.
> >
> > I love "bee music in the limes", is that an actual quote? & who is Rawnsley?
> >
> > KS
> >
> > On 16/01/2008, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Snap: Remember the Lakes?
> >>
> >> Jeff writes: Max, you will recall
> >> sitting on a bench at Rydal Mount
> >> amidst Wordsworth¹s rhododendrons
> >> (were they?), and
> >>
> >> perched on a square pillar
> >> at the bottom of some stone steps
> >> the curious stone ornament
> >> about the size of a basketball
> >> which fell on (and injured) W¹s gardener¹s foot?
> >>
> >> and listening to my reading
> >> from one of Rawnsley¹s books of sonnets?
> >> Yes, the Rawnsley who wrote down
> >> what the locals thought of Wordsworth.
> >>
> >> You might also recall how R was unhappy
> >> about telephone wires and a large red PO letter box
> >> just below Wordsworth¹s house, and mused
> >> (right where we were sitting/standing)
> >> about ³bee music in the limes².
> >>
> >> Dear Jeff, Recall? I do recall our week
> >> back in ¹74 in that rented cottage, five of us.
> >> And the road-kill pheasant you retrieved,
> >> hung in the pantry, which stank us out.
> >>
> >> And the rain, the churchyard at Cartmel,
> >> and Ruskin¹s lovely-sad place by the water.
> >> But Rydal Mount? What I recall is
> >> reading about it. Rawnsley?
> >> one of your enthusiasms
> >>
> >> I do recall your enthusiasm,
> >> your dragging me scrambling
> >> up the perils of Striding Edge....
> >> yes, I must have been there, partly there.
> >>
> >> Max Richards
> >> Doncaster, Vic
> >>
> >> Wednesday 16 January 2008
> >>
> >>
>
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