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=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/
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 storiesthe 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 storiesthe 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
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