ah, yes, still fitting (as they say)....
Doug
On 16-Oct-07, at 1:31 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> In the cream gilded cabin of his steam yacht
> Mr. Nixon advised me kindly, to advance with fewer
> Dangers of delay. "Consider
> Carefully the reviewer.
>
> "I was as poor as you are;
> "When I began I got, of course,
> "Advance on royalties, fifty at first", said Mr. Nixon,
> "Follow me, and take a column,
> "Even if you have to work free.
>
> "Butter reviewers. From fifty to three hundred
> "I rose in eighteen months;
> "The hardest nut I had to crack
> "Was Dr. Dundas.
>
> "I never mentioned a man but with the view
> "Of selling my own works.
> "The tip's a good one, as for literature
> "It gives no man a sinecure."
>
> And no one knows, at sight a masterpiece.
> And give up verse, my boy,
> There's nothing in it."
>
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and this is 'life' and we owe at least this much
contemplation to our western fact: to Rise,
Decline, Fall, to futility and larks,
to the bright crustaceans of the oversky.
Phyllis Webb
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