Mine is probably the greater hangover, Judy. I said to Lydia tonight
'we've got to stop not-meeting like this' (!!)
Best (yr hons)
Dave
2008/9/14 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
> Quite right, Dave. Yours is the greater truth.
> Hon. joodles
>
>
> 2008/9/14 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>
>> Judy
>>
>> By indirections we find directions out
>>
>>
>> (smile)
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> 2008/9/14 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > Do you want me to take this indirect 'dig' as exactly that, then,
>> > Christopher----indirect? Why don't you just rebut me? Indirection's too
>> > easy, and it's sneaky.
>> > You wrote: "Better certainly than the limbo of anthologies and set books
>> or
>> > (say) the musical conveyance of analogy."
>> >
>> > Hon. joodles
>> >
>> > 2008/9/14 Christopher Walker <[log in to unmask]>
>> >
>> >> <snip>
>> >> Btw there hasn't been any discussion about this, but yesterday I saw
>> >> on on the newspaper stands 'I was glad to ban poet', that was because
>> >> a poem by Duffy had been kicked off the National Curriculum by a
>> >> Leicestershire school-teacher, so The Leicester Mercury got into the
>> >> act, now whatever I I think about C.A.D's poems I'll defend her right
>> >> to write them. There seems to have been a peculiar and noticeable
>> >> silence on this list about this matter. [DB]
>> >> <snip>
>> >>
>> >> I knew nothing of this before googling. Now I do.
>> >>
>> >> Banning does at least mean *taking seriously*, and that may be better
>> than
>> >> nothing. Better certainly than the limbo of anthologies and set books or
>> >> (say) the musical conveyance of analogy. There was a nice instance in
>> the
>> >> case of *God is Dead*, an Italian song of the 60s which draws a bit on
>> >> *Howl*. If I've got the story right, RAI banned it (sacrilegious!)
>> whereas
>> >> Vatican Radio actually favoured it because the last verse reads (here I
>> >> paraphrase) God is risen when we are true to ourselves.
>> >>
>> >> The idea that knife crime is affected either way by reading CAD is a
>> pretty
>> >> certain indication that the thinker is a crank. But if only that _were_
>> the
>> >> case!
>> >>
>> >> CW
>> >> _______________________________________________
>> >>
>> >> 'How to speak a different language and still be understood?
>> >> This is *communication* but we might call it politics, or we
>> >> might call it life.' (Judith Revel)
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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