Mark Weiss wrote:
> About 15 years ago I tried to get the rights to the complete works of
> Percy Dovetonsils. Would have made a nice little book. The Kovacs
> estate wasn't interested.
>
> There's an alternate image of the poet as rake, going back at least to
> the Restoration, and passing down through Byron to Dylan Thomas and
> beyond.
I'm getting this picture...Dovetonsils and John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of
Rochester, having a drink or two or three in some upscale London saloon,
each trying to figure out what the other one is talking about.
> And of course there's the vatic nonsense that becomes a slow fart with
> Bly.
Add Bly to that jolly drinking party and what do you have?....
Ken
(no, NOT Ken, I was only playing guitar over in the corner)
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