Keith Roberts Pavane: modern Britain in a world where the Catholic Church remained in power.. Beautiful novel sort of, an accumulation of several stories… I bert Peter would have known it...
> On Mar 28, 2019, at 2:59 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Douglas thanks- I it seems am totally unaware of the alternative history!!being stuck in nowhere in south London
>
> maybe a bit of rewriting around pavan /pavane both which upset the spellcheck!!
>
> will ponder!
>
> On 27/03/2019 16:02, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>> A nice turn,PAtrick. Admittedly, whenever I see that word, I’m reminded of the great alternate history of that title.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2019, at 3:41 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> cheers Bill oops tricky then -it came to me as I headed to my co-op and I wondered when I last used second gear let alone third
>>>
>>> On 27/03/2019 09:31, Bill Wootton wrote:
>>>> I looked it up and the ‘urban dictionary’, Pat, says pavaned is ‘to
>>>> basically suck at doing something’! I’m presuming rather you meant the slow
>>>> dance of the lowly geared. I like the circularity of it and your title.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 8:18 pm, Patrick McManus <
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>>>>
>>>>> *TRAVEL*
>>>>>
>>>>> elderly cyclist
>>>>>
>>>>> sedately
>>>>>
>>>>> elegantly
>>>>>
>>>>> pavaned
>>>>>
>>>>> first gear all
>>>>>
>>>>> the way there
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> elderly cyclist
>>>>>
>>>>> sedately
>>>>>
>>>>> elegantly
>>>>>
>>>>> pavaned
>>>>>
>>>>> first gear all
>>>>>
>>>>> the way back
>>>>>
>>>>> /pmcmanus/
>>>>>
>>>>> /s459/
>>>>>
>>>>> /how does one spell pavaned pavanned?/
>>>>>
>>>>> /that elegant dance -Ti's a selfie of course!
>>>>> /
Douglas Barbour
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