Good to have you & lids back, L.
Although I rather like that Fifth (in whole of course).
That dread & that condemnation certainly enough to keep one snarkily alive…
Doug
On Aug 12, 2015, at 5:36 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thank you.
> I can't take credit for the feast day. I don't know who does that. Part
> timers at Vehicle Registration maybe.
> I believe (?) that it was reinstituted relatively recently after a lurk of
> some centuries but am surprised to realise I do not know how one checks the
> history of such things. Not easily.
> I had a quick google on the subject of Elid, which I haven't done for ages,
> and found much waffle, usually saying he lived on St Helen's. He may have
> lived on what is now St Helen's; but like most of the now islands it is
> recent, formed by eustatic rise. It would have been he NW of the main
> island then Sure you wanted to know that.
> I celebrated by writing him. I don't especially want to be on Scilly in
> August, not without a walled compound.
> I'm not quite sure when this was written, but recently. Last few days.
> BBC Radio blasted me with the opening of Mahler's Fifth, loud trumpets you
> know - it was only brief: someone won a doughnut or something for
> recognising it - but by then I was full of Stanley Spencer thoughts,
> chucking back of green sward sheets and leaping around the graveyard in a
> glorified body. It occurred to me that those who had sinned might be less
> happy without being told, like Adam and Eve hiding in the bushes.
> This much is programmed into me by lay bros; but after more than half a
> century of saying shan't, like the cook in Alice, I sought salvation in an
> internal declaration that I was writing an Elid poem.
> Not an entirely happy process, But when I left E to finish it for me in his
> own words I think he gave a sense that he's not entirely at peace with such
> concepts either.
> Anyway, thanks for writing and seemingly getting something out of it. I may
> have finished my lurk - is it the first in a decade? First in a long time.
> I have been writing WHAAT on my favourite wall. Probably back now
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> On 12 August 2015 at 11:54, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Well if he did not exist you have created him and a feast day too -how did
>> you celebrate? Cheers P who may or may not exist-I am watching out for that
>> loud music
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
>> Sent: 12 August 2015 11:15
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: from Elidius on Ennor
>>
>> From *Elidius on Ennor*
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>> When loud music from Heaven ends mere time,
>> each here might know how well we have behaved
>> in the mind of God. I hope, just then, to feel
>> a growing joy; yet, in my mortal gut,
>> I have little but dread that I shall start
>> in and throughout my emotions, to die
>> as I perceive the first notes of the sound:
>> that condemnatory melody in Love
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>> [Elidius is one of the names of one who may have lived at some time after
>> the Roman period on Scilly, or, as it then seems to have been called,
>> Ennor. There is no evidence of him apart from the earlier name of St
>> Helen's island, where it is said he may have been buried, Insula Sancti
>> Elidii. His feast day is 8th August. Until now he has had no hagiographer.
>> ]
>>
Douglas Barbour
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Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
Done in by creation itself.
I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
Robert Kroetsch.
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