> Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:57:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Keston Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
> To: orpheus <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: british n irish poets <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Gen Repression
> Reply-to: Keston Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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> - Cliff: by "fag end", I'm pretty sure that Robin meant to conjure up not
> any homophobic denigration, but simply the metaphor of a cigarette stub
> after the usefulness of the actual 'fag' (do you call cigarettes fags in
> Canada?) has run out, been smoked. This is a common enough simile. No
> offence meant, I'm sure.
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> Keston.
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Thank you, Keston. If anyone is in any doubt, still, about what I
meant by "fag-end", I`m happy to confirm, jesus wept, that I had,
would you believe it,
cigarette butts in mind.
Robin
enough to read your post and that this time he doesn`t look back
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