Less aleatory than alimentary I guess
Best
C
__________________________________________
Christopher Hamilton-Emery
Publishing Division Production Manager
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building
Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK
tel: +44 (0)1223 325840 (direct)
fax: +44 (0)1223 315052
web: http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk
__________________________________________
* Find Cambridge Journals Online at http://www.journals.cup.org *
----------
>From: "Lawrence Upton." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "british-poets" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: WC
>Date: 2-Aug-19999:34 am
>
> I am going to tell you about something rather distasteful and unpleasant;
> but it is in the interests of literary science.
>
> Yesterday (Sunday), late afternoon, I decided a rest was in order and lay
> down on my bed. There are points of view which might hold this to be
> distasteful and unpleasant, but it is not my intention to present them
> here - I shall note and apologise for the excessive part in due course. For
> now, I prefer you to concentrate on the facts.
>
> As I lay down, I must have flipped on the radio, I like the radio; but,
> seemingly, almost immediately, I was asleep...
>
> Not long later, I woke in emergency mode, realising I was in the process of
> being sick, my mouth filling with bile. It was real enough, although I shall
> spare you the details, but the nausea passed even as I crossed from my
> bedroom to the toilet, conveniently opposite. I went to the bathroom and had
> a drink of water; and, surprisingly, one was enough to restore me. This was
> unlike any other sickness I had ever had.
>
> So complete was my immediate recovery that, blaming the doner kebab I had
> both purchased and consumed in Camden High Street the day before, I returned
> to the bedroom to continue resting. However - and, this is the distasteful
> and unpleasant bit - as I entered the room, I realised that Wendy Cope was
> performing, in fact she was nearing the end, of a construction of
> rhythmically-stressed words of which some rhymed. I am not sure how long it
> had been, but no one could sustain such material for long. Therefore, I
> suspect that the onset of my apparent illness coincided with the mention of
> her name. There is much that we do not know about our mental processes, but
> here is a fine example of the brain taking drastic action, risking choking
> its host body, to get itself out of a room filled by deleterious noise.
>
> (The programme was called Fine Lines. A fine line between tranquillity and
> nausea, I suppose.)
>
> Be warned and be grateful. The recumbent mind is more watchful than I had
> imagined.
>
> L
> ------------------------------------------------
> The Sub Voicive Poetry website:
> http://www2.crosswinds.net/members/~subvoicivepoetry/
> ------------------------------------------------
> Lawrence Upton's website:
> http://members.spree.com/sip/lizard/index.htm
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
|