Nasty stuff, firedamp. Perhaps that's why people often want to escape poetry
readings?
'patrilineal' is ok so therefore 'co-'. It's awkward though I know.
On 26/03/2008, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dave watch out for the firedamp you can get a lot of that at poetry
> readings
>
> P
> Ps co-patrilineal sounds a bit dodgy ??
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> Circum circa
>
> Circa a European Year of Revolutions,
> of Kossuth and Cavour and Louis Napoleon's Eighteenth Brumaire,
> when Chartists massed, faintly tinted in life colours,
> in the first known crowd photograph
> and a grim economist fused a hissing manifesto,
> one man found everything to lose,
> one man preserved
>
> by the Heanor and District Historical Society,
> one man who might have been
> co-patrilineal
>
> to this one, scribbling here, a bone trace of age unstated,
> Joseph of my surname, asphyxiated (circa)
> 1848 at a firedamp lit hard seam at Loscoe pit.
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