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=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
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> (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/
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