Indeed.
At 04:01 AM 2/10/2010, you wrote:
>Very elegant.
>
>On 10 February 2010 08:26, ROBIN HAMILTON
><[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
> > There's a World of Our Own
> >
> > (from: The Anarcho-Syndicalist Handbook for Young Gentlemen
> > and Ladies of An Uncertain Age.)
> >
> > What's the point
> > the Youngster asked
> > of all those stories about lost continents --
> > Atlantis, Ultima Thule, Hye Brazil?
> >
> > Well, said the Grandfather
> > puffing his pipe in the usual fashion
> > It's all to do with
> > nostalgie de la boue
> >
> > Our first homesickness
> > is for the sea
> > so we sit on the beach and
> > stare longingly
> > into the waves lapping and tempting,
> > amniotic ocean our cells came from
> >
> > While the second nostalgia is
> > for the past, when
> > all was clear and simple
> > and we were young in the world
> >
> > ... the third nostalgia
> > is nostalgia for elsewhere
> > So we stare into the
> > liminal marriage of earth and sky
> > crack in space we'd fall into
> >
> > And the last nostalgia
> > is for what might have been,
> > when the grandfather
> > sits with children
> > and tells them how
> > life would be, if
> >
> >
> > ROBIN HAMILTON
> > 10.02.10
> >
>
>
>
>--
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