I think it all goes to confirm the assertion that he spent a lot of time in
the pub
and to contradict the assertion that it didn't intoxicate him
L
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From: "david.bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 24 March 2002 17:15
Subject: Re: (MacDiarmid & Hamilton)
| & David, yes (re McD), I see, sorry, right
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| >back in the hunny pot with me, then
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| I was struck by his upset at the poet making up language he didn't have;
| where does that leave Spenser?
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| L<
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| Indeed, in the dog-house one assumes, Lawrence.
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| I was in a condition of Japanese eyebrows at his grudgingly praising
| description of 'such as A Drunk Man Looks at a Thistle' as 'engaging
little
| oddities' (wish I could write 'little oddities' like that) and taken aback
| by 'if poetry cannot be wrung from the language Scotsmen speak then no
| amount of nostalgic pedantry' can succeed. Phew!
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| Best
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| Dave
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