Here in Leicester the former Central Library is going to become a
Jobseeker's Centre, which will be very useful for the redundant librarians.
On 7 November 2010 17:59, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> And all of those lovely buildings waiting for other uses! Imagine how many
> skateboard courses would fit in the British Library.
>
>
> At 12:22 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>
>> Library sales are brilliant but you very soon come up against the reason
>> why
>> public libraries are needed in the first place. While every time I go into
>> our local vanishing asset I am reminded of old ladies who amass stray
>> cats.
>>
>> On 7 November 2010 14:53, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > On a seriuous note (when am I not serious?), there are going to be some
>> > great library sales.
>> >
>> >
>> > At 03:25 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> >
>> >> It sounds to me like a lot of interests see money is dismantling
>> libraries
>> >> and are determined to make it an 'inevitable process'. There will, of
>> >> course, be no end of 'writers' after their slice of the action. As the
>> >> books
>> >> disappear so the local laureates, book doctors and language workers
>> >> thrive.
>> >> I'm expecting the advent of Writers-in-Residence in Jobcentres.
>> >> I suppose on the bonus side to all this in the long run there won't be
>> an
>> >> obligation for all poets to pretend to be left-wing so the natural
>> animals
>> >> can revert to their true colours. It must be such a strain on them, all
>> >> the
>> >> pretence, the poor things.
>> >>
>> >> On 6 November 2010 11:39, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Thanks Dave.
>> >> > Sounds like the prelude to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Roger Collett
>> >> > Arrowhead Press
>> >> > http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> > "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> >> > Jules de Gaultier
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
>> >> > [log in to unmask]>
>> >> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:26 AM
>> >> >
>> >> > Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > Drat. It works in Facebook and I tried it out in the mail before
>> >> posting -
>> >> >> try this:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414052&c=1
>> >> >>
>> >> >> or if not go to http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ click 'more
>> >> news'
>> >> >> and
>> >> >> look for a story dated 4th November called 'Time to shelve the book
>> >> habit'
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 6 November 2010 11:12, Roger Collett <
>> [log in to unmask]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yeah, but it's been imprisoned. I can't open the link anyway.
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Roger Collett
>> >> >>> Arrowhead Press
>> >> >>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> >>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> >> >>> Jules de Gaultier
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
>> >> >>> [log in to unmask]>
>> >> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:09 AM
>> >> >>> Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> Hmmm ...
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> historically inapt.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On 6 November 2010 10:35, Roger Collett <
>> [log in to unmask]
>> >> >
>> >> >>>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> Hmmm....
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>> I think this could do with a dose of The Spanish Inquisition.
>> >> >>>>> "You never expect The Spanish Inquisition!!!"
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Roger Collett
>> >> >>>>> Arrowhead Press
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> >>>>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> >> >>>>> Jules de Gaultier
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
>> >> >>>>> [log in to unmask]>
>> >> >>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:36 AM
>> >> >>>>> Subject: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Scene: A Monty Python launderette which is also a domestic
>> living
>> >> >>>>> room.
>> >> >>>>> On
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> a
>> >> >>>>>> sofa sit Terry Jones and Eric Idle in drag as hair-piled-high
>> >> >>>>>> housewives
>> >> >>>>>> with aprons, egg-stained cardigans and rolling pins.
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> Housewife One (con falsetto) : 'I'm sick of all this Jean-Paul
>> >> Sartre,
>> >> >>>>>> what's on the box?' (looking at a washing machine)
>> >> >>>>>> Housewife Two (tweaking moustache, basso profundo) : ' Just
>> Bloody
>> >> >>>>>> Repeats.
>> >> >>>>>> As Joyce said ' (voice changing to falsetto) 'History is the
>> >> nightmare
>> >> >>>>>> from
>> >> >>>>>> which I am trying to awake. Or ...'
>> >> >>>>>> (both in unison): 'It's - Yet Again - The Dissolution of The
>> >> >>>>>> Monasteries
>> >> >>>>>> Show' :
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> --
>> >> >>>>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> >> >>>>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> >> >>>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> >>>>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >> >>>>>> The Animal Subsides
>> >> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> >>>>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >> >>>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> >> >>>>>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>> --
>> >> >>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> >> >>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> >> >>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> >>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >> >>>> The Animal Subsides
>> >> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> >>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >> >>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> >> >>>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> >> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> >> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >> >> The Animal Subsides
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >> >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> >> >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
>> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>> >
>> >
>> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
>> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
>> through
>> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
>> > fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out,
>> the
>> > more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
>> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
>> Weiss.
>> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
>> musical
>> > threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
>> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>> >
>> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
>> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>
>
> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
> particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
> every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’
> fragments are like Chekhov’s short storiesthe more that gets left out, the
> more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various
> ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
> His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical
> threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
> personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>
> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
> http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>
--
(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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