On a seriuous note (when am I not serious?),
there are going to be some great library sales.
At 03:25 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>It sounds to me like a lot of interests see money is dismantling libraries
>and are determined to make it an 'inevitable process'. There will, of
>course, be no end of 'writers' after their slice of the action. As the books
>disappear so the local laureates, book doctors and language workers thrive.
>I'm expecting the advent of Writers-in-Residence in Jobcentres.
>I suppose on the bonus side to all this in the long run there won't be an
>obligation for all poets to pretend to be left-wing so the natural animals
>can revert to their true colours. It must be such a strain on them, all the
>pretence, the poor things.
>
>On 6 November 2010 11:39, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dave.
> > Sounds like the prelude to Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451"
> >
> >
> > Roger Collett
> > Arrowhead Press
> > http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> > Jules de Gaultier
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> > [log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:26 AM
> >
> > Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> >
> >
> > Drat. It works in Facebook and I tried it out in the mail before posting -
> >> try this:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=414052&c=1
> >>
> >> or if not go to http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ click 'more news'
> >> and
> >> look for a story dated 4th November called 'Time to shelve the book habit'
> >>
> >> On 6 November 2010 11:12, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Yeah, but it's been imprisoned. I can't open the link anyway.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Roger Collett
> >>> Arrowhead Press
> >>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> >>> Jules de Gaultier
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> >>> [log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 11:09 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hmmm ...
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> historically inapt.
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6 November 2010 10:35, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hmmm....
> >>>>
> >>>>> I think this could do with a dose of The Spanish Inquisition.
> >>>>> "You never expect The Spanish Inquisition!!!"
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Roger Collett
> >>>>> Arrowhead Press
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
> >>>>> Jules de Gaultier
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
> >>>>> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:36 AM
> >>>>> Subject: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Scene: A Monty Python launderette which is also a domestic living
> >>>>> room.
> >>>>> On
> >>>>>
> >>>>> a
> >>>>>> sofa sit Terry Jones and Eric Idle in drag as hair-piled-high
> >>>>>> housewives
> >>>>>> with aprons, egg-stained cardigans and rolling pins.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Housewife One (con falsetto) : 'I'm sick of all this Jean-Paul Sartre,
> >>>>>> what's on the box?' (looking at a washing machine)
> >>>>>> Housewife Two (tweaking moustache, basso profundo) : ' Just Bloody
> >>>>>> Repeats.
> >>>>>> As Joyce said ' (voice changing to falsetto) 'History is the nightmare
> >>>>>> from
> >>>>>> which I am trying to awake. Or ...'
> >>>>>> (both in unison): 'It's - Yet Again - The Dissolution of The
> >>>>>> Monasteries
> >>>>>> Show' :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=41
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> >>>>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> >>>>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >>>>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >>>>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >>>>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >>>>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >>>>>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> >>>> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> >>>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >>>> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >>>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >>>> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >>>> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >> --
> >> (David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
> >> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> >> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> >> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> >> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> >> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
> >> twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
> >> blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
> >>
> >>
>
>
>--
>(David Joseph) The Brothers Bircumshaw
>"Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
>Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
>The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw
>twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave
>blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/
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