Cool, Max, very enjoyable li'l story. Andrew
2008/5/15 Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
> When I was very small, about four years old, I suppose, a line of poetry
> entered into my consciousness, never to leave it again:
>
> Rye pappels drop about my head.
>
> I had no idea what rye pappels might be, but they held a magic, an
> enchantment for me, and when in later life I identified them as the ripe
> apples of Andrew Marvell's poem they had lost nothing of their enchantment
> in the process of growing up.
>
> Victoria Sackville-West, The Illustrated Garden Book
>
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Andrew
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