*** It was no secret that Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone were arch
political enemies. After a particularly heated debate in the House of
Commons, Gladstone, addressing Disraeli, shouted, "Sir, you will come to
your end either upon the gallows or of venereal disease."
To this Disraeli calmly replied, "I should say, Mr. Gladstone, that depends
on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
http://puzzlist.blogspot.com/search?q=disraeli
"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
friend, if you have one." - (George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill).
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." -
(Winston Churchill, in response).
The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my
husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of
it." - Mark Twain
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Ken Wolman
Sent: 08 November 2010 13:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
I have heard a story I can't document--about Gladstone and Disraeli getting
into a shouting match on the floor of Commons. One saying to the other,
"Sir, you will end you life either on the gallows or dying of a venereal
disease." The reply: "The depends, sir, on whether I embrace you politics or
your mistress." Can anyone verify the truth or falsity of this tale?
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> All part of the Tory plan never to be elected again.
>
> At 06:11 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> Actually I believe the new Jobseekers joint will specialise in teaching
>> basic numeracy and, guess what word, yup, literacy. The librarians should
>> really appreciate that. As well as the four week streetcleaning holidays
now
>> planned.
>>
>> On 7 November 2010 23:03, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > Who can bring books with them to read while they wait.
>> >
>> >
>> > At 05:51 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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=414
052&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 stories the 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 stories the 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 stories the 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 stories the 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
|