Peter,
I wouldn't worry what people think. If you took the time to talk to those
who might think "us" totally insane the chances are they'd prove barmy too,
in their own way.
.
Mockery can be unpleasant, but a little formality can deal with that. A door
shut politely but authoritatively deals with most of it.
.
I was startled by "people on their ways to the toilets, people peering in
through open windows " and wondered where you'd been reading, but you did
say "peering" so that's all right. It was just my coarsely associative mind.
.
I find the voice box pretty hermetic (bissett said it was quote a beautiful
place but apart from the view I disagree) and we had people staring in at
Maggs and Bob the other night
,
.
L
.
I -----Original Message-----
From: Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 18 June 1999 17:19
Subject: Windy Stair
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|Poetry reading venues need to be hermetically sealed against the outside
|world.
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|I always find it embarrassing as reader or listener when the arrangements
|permit stray outsiders (pub customers, people on their ways to the toilets,
|people peering in through open windows etc.) to eavesdrop, and they see
|someone standing there saying things which sound like total insanity like
|language gone sheer bananas, and other people on chairs listening as if
|they're being told something when they're manifestly not. Must look like
|some crazy sect speaking in tongues to each other. It makes me want to
|apologise for the whole thing. "I'm sorry, we're not at all normal in
|here."
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|/PR
|('s back)
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