There must be a message in this, Dave. What does 'It' represent: watching
the film, being with your first prolonged love, or HOLDING HANDS? Are you
sure that you didnae climb into your bed at age 3 as a self-initiating
Contraceptive Device, you precocious divvil.
BTW, we have discovered that AE Housman was brought up in Birmingham. !!!!!
Best, and thanks for the laffs,
Judy
2009/2/3 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> I remember one evening when I was eighteen, several centuries ago,
> sitting with my first +serious+ girlfriend and my then i.e. deceased
> mom and dad on the same settee watching that film and said distant
> parents, who barely spoke, and hadn't slept in the same bed alone
> together since before my conscious memories (I do recall them being in
> the same bed when I was about three but they put me in the middle as a
> contraceptive device) watching that film, with me and my first
> prolonged love, and HOLDING HANDS.
>
> It was a shock to me, and probably to my dad, as he dropped dead a few
> weeks after.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
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> 2009/2/3 Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>:
> > New blog post:
> > "Looking at the barrage of overrated and over-produced contemporary films
> it is easy to forget that film once aspired to be an art form. One such film
> is William Wyler's 1939 underrated version of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering
> Heights which ..."
> > http://jeffreyside.tripod.com/
> >
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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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