And having written that, I went on to read the newsletter from Melvyn
Bragg on his radio programme on Battle of Bosworth Field... the programme
was better than the newsletter, always is; and I am not sure why I take
it. Sometimes he does add things that were said but not broadcast because
they were said before or after -- his programme is a live discussion
He says:
It was also pointed out that the fighting in medieval wars was very often
done by a handful of people who liked fighting and were trained to fight.
They were trained troops and to manipulate a horse in full armour, with
weapons to hand, needed a great deal of training and the will to kill had
to be cultivated.
I thought of your first follow on line, Chris, when I read about the
handful of people who liked fighting
I thought of the fantasy posters of IRA with pictures of people waving
with friendly smiles at the brave republican hero with a gun
and in particular I note that the will to kill has to be cultivated
L
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Subject: Re: what if...
From: "Lawrence Upton" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, April 28, 2012 08:49
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They're good lines
I wasn't asked to, but I couldn't follow them, too many conflicting ideas
about civil war; though I agree totally with what the second line says
Socially the worst thing that may have happened to me is that I learned
some formal at school, though it helped later with computing
and then the uni taught me some system analysis, and that was the second
worst thing that could have happened to me socially!
and I have so many wet notebooks with the ink running
(we have rain and drought here)
I liked the line as a poem
best
L
On Sat, April 28, 2012 04:57, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 27/04/12 19:02, Lawrence Upton wrote:
>
>>> What if I told you it took me six hours to roll a piece of paper into
>>> my
>> typewriter
>>
>> just as a kind of poem, aware of the context but also reading it as if
>> without that context
>
>
> I liked the line, as well. But how to follow up on such a strong
> narrative hook line???? Maybe it is worth a try, so how about this as a
> starter...
>
>
> What if I told you it took six hours to roll a piece of paper into my
> typewriter
>
> submachine gun fire burst in side-less civil wars mixing genres with a
> failure of nerve a-logical thought
>
> it rains so hard notebooks are fountain pen ink washing away wet getting
> wetter and dry becomes shifting dunes
>
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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