Have just spoken to Roger (C) on the phone, and he apologised for 'stirring
Hamilton up about Browning again'.
>> Aw come on, Robin, the man had a tin ear! Are we going to end up fighting
>> a duel over this?
>
> I thought we'd already had that duel, teacups for two and tea for one in a
> Salisbury tearoom.
> It's just that somehow everytime I find myself arguing this, in the
> meatworld rather than cyberspace, everyone seems to agree with you.
And what should that tell you?
>> I just don't understand how you can't hear that, considering how precise
>> your ear is for Donne, Wyatt, and the like.
>
> Well, +I+ don't know what you see in EBB. I like her letters, and the
> Great God Pan ain't bad, but other than that, for all of me, she had as
> much talent for poetry as her son had for painting.
But I +don't+ like her stuff! Just, when you're 15, staying with your gran
and desperate for something to read, she's better than nothing.
> (ie. a little but not that much.)
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> R.
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