Quoting kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
> I wanted to mention how well this starts: "the annoying way", and then an
> interrupting aside. certainly annoying! but I read on & enjoyed.
> I also liked the internal monologue, or rather the outward description of
> the dialogue. plus your list technique was great, and I especially liked the
> line "money, his wife, or dinner." I laughed aloud at that juxtaposition.
> quite reminiscent of Woody Allen, to me.
> I've also just been recounting Stephen Dedalus' religious crisis, and the
> lines "I got tired / of shoveling my best moods / through a hole in the sky"
> are especially poignant to me right now, though never having possessed a
> religious vein myself, per se.
Me, I was once (c.1955) a militant rationalist hoping to stamp out christianity,
starting with my friends...mainly via satirical rhymes.
Auckland then had a bunch of wild old godhating men and a wellfunded Rationalist
Association.
This week I've exchanged emails with the (urbane) Melbourne editor of The
Australian Rationalist who published that 'Giant Badgers of Basra' poem I
circulated.
I have now sent him an excerpt of Fred's poem because I so liked the 'shoveling
my best moods' remark. So Fred, maybe there will be urgent calls from the editor
- 'send us such writing, our readers will love it'.
Max
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