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From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: "Closure"
> Quoting kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> I wanted to mention how well this starts: "the annoying way", and then an
>> interrupting aside. certainly annoying! but I read on & enjoyed.
>> I also liked the internal monologue, or rather the outward description of
>> the dialogue. plus your list technique was great, and I especially liked
>> the
>> line "money, his wife, or dinner." I laughed aloud at that juxtaposition.
>> quite reminiscent of Woody Allen, to me.
>> I've also just been recounting Stephen Dedalus' religious crisis, and the
>> lines "I got tired / of shoveling my best moods / through a hole in the
>> sky"
>> are especially poignant to me right now, though never having possessed a
>> religious vein myself, per se.
>
> Me, I was once (c.1955) a militant rationalist hoping to stamp out
> christianity,
> starting with my friends...mainly via satirical rhymes.
> Auckland then had a bunch of wild old godhating men and a wellfunded
> Rationalist
> Association.
>
> This week I've exchanged emails with the (urbane) Melbourne editor of The
> Australian Rationalist who published that 'Giant Badgers of Basra' poem I
> circulated.
> I have now sent him an excerpt of Fred's poem because I so liked the
> 'shoveling
> my best moods' remark. So Fred, maybe there will be urgent calls from the
> editor
> - 'send us such writing, our readers will love it'.
>
> Max
>
I'd love to appear there! Though he should be aware that I'm a highly
irrational rationalist.
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