Diff source!!
The British have a way with one-liners. Lamb's favorite comeback comes from
18th-century politician John Wilkes. After a rival yelled that Wilkes either
would die on the gallows or of venereal disease, Wilkes replied, "That sir,
depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."
http://illbesoberinthemorning.blogspot.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Ken Wolman
Sent: 08 November 2010 13:45
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: It's Henery the Eighth Agen Agen
I have heard a story I can't document--about Gladstone and Disraeli getting
into a shouting match on the floor of Commons. One saying to the other,
"Sir, you will end you life either on the gallows or dying of a venereal
disease." The reply: "The depends, sir, on whether I embrace you politics or
your mistress." Can anyone verify the truth or falsity of this tale?
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:09 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> All part of the Tory plan never to be elected again.
>
> At 06:11 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> Actually I believe the new Jobseekers joint will specialise in teaching
>> basic numeracy and, guess what word, yup, literacy. The librarians should
>> really appreciate that. As well as the four week streetcleaning holidays
now
>> planned.
>>
>> On 7 November 2010 23:03, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > Who can bring books with them to read while they wait.
>> >
>> >
>> > At 05:51 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> >
>> >> Here in Leicester the former Central Library is going to become a
>> >> Jobseeker's Centre, which will be very useful for the redundant
>> >> librarians.
>> >>
>> >> On 7 November 2010 17:59, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > And all of those lovely buildings waiting for other uses! Imagine
how
>> >> many
>> >> > skateboard courses would fit in the British Library.
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > At 12:22 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Library sales are brilliant but you very soon come up against the
>> >> reason
>> >> >> why
>> >> >> public libraries are needed in the first place. While every time I
go
>> >> into
>> >> >> our local vanishing asset I am reminded of old ladies who amass
stray
>> >> >> cats.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On 7 November 2010 14:53, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > 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=414
052&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/
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
>> >> >> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely
concatenation
>> >> of
>> >> >> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word,
and
>> >> >> through
>> >> >> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part,
Weiss'
>> >> >> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories the more that gets
left
>> >> out,
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the
various
>> >> >> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure
Mark
>> >> >> Weiss.
>> >> >> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a
pure
>> >> >> musical
>> >> >> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person,
a
>> >> >> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the
poem."
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
>> >> >> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> --
>> >> >> (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/
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
>> >> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation
of
>> >> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
>> >> through
>> >> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss'
>> >> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories the more that gets left
out,
>> >> the
>> >> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
>> >> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
>> >> Weiss.
>> >> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
>> >> musical
>> >> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
>> >> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>> >> >
>> >> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
>> >> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> (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/
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
>> > $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>> >
>> >
>> > "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
>> > particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and
through
>> > every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss'
>> > fragments are like Chekhov's short stories the more that gets left out,
the
>> > more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
>> > ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark
Weiss.
>> > His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure
musical
>> > threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
>> > personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>> >
>> > M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
>> > http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> (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/
>
>
>
> New from Chax Press: Mark Weiss, As Landscape.
> $16. Order from http://www.chax.org/poets/weiss.htm
>
>
> "What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of
particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through
every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss'
fragments are like Chekhov's short stories the more that gets left out, the
more they seem to contain. One can hear echoes from all the various
ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss.
His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical
threnody.[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a
personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
>
> M.G. Stephens, in Jacket.
http://jacketmagazine.com/40/r-weiss-rb-stephens.shtml
|