I suspect a very British construction here, Lawrence, but it compels...
Doug
On 2012-12-12, at 6:01 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> That's him. Bert Strewth. You've met him too?
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> L
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> Strewth!
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> INTRODUCES HER HUSBAND
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> An outrageous sort of bloke --
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> handshake but doesn't speak --
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> all that mattered nothing,
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> and mob mind surface consciousness --
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> visiting out of a blackness --
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> who's heard rumours concerning himself;
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> naturalisation of provocative remarks,
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> incredulity banging ceaselessly like information.
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> The vocabulary of recognition's essential,
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> the future of many words constructed
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> somewhere in a hedge of confidentiality
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> resorting to whole sentences,
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> a flood of understatement swamping
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> a turn of phrase and willingness.
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Douglas Barbour
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