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Ah, the quote from Robin was worth it. Ashbless appears in Tim Powers's The Anubis Gates.... Doug On 18-Sep-09, at 12:04 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > Rob > > Th'answores are blowen in the wyndes? > > > (the reference I meant to Pelham was specifically to Wall's novel > and the > fictional Richard Pelham, mad eighteenth century poet, he created, > but no > matter) > > 2009/9/18 Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> > >> dave: >> >> << >> which features Pelham and was looking for any reference to it. >> >>> >>>> >> Pelham is also the title of a novel by Buller Littun, he in the >> dark and >> stormy night frame. >> >> One of the notorious Newgate novels, supposed to be the reason >> society was >> going to the dogs (in 1828) and contains more blowens than you can >> shake a >> stick at. >> >> Rodent >> >> *********************** >> >> "Ruffling Job, my prince of prigs, is that you? are you come to the >> ken >> alone, or do you carry double?" >> >> "Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your >> bingo >> muns in spite of the darkmans. Egad, you carry a bane blink aloft. >> Come >> to the ken alone--no! my blowen; did not I tell you I should bring a >> pater cove, to chop up the whiners for Dawson?" >> >> "Stubble it, you ben, you deserve to cly the jerk for your patter; >> come >> in, and be d--d to you." >> >> Upon this invitation, Jonson, seizing me by the arm, pushed me into >> the >> house, and followed. "Go for a glim, Bess, to light in the parish >> bull >> with proper respect. I'll close the gig of the crib." >> >> From _Pelham_, by BL >> > > > > -- > David Bircumshaw > "A window./Big enough to hold screams/ > You say are poems" - DMeltzer > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html The poet’s only responsibility is to write fresh lines. Charles Olson