Hi
It's difficult not to like but I'm not a particular fan of GM. Well, just
look at his initials.
The dread and condemnation are terrible things; and I have seen potential
contentment ruined by it.
But I couldn't very well resurrect a man like Elid without going there. And
the unexpected blast of trumpets put me into it before I knew; so
hesitation wasn't possible.
Only thing that I might have mentioned and didn't was that I hesitated over
when the concepts of the last trump per se came in. I imagine it's Hebrew
O.T. So I didn't invoke a ast trump as such
I do know people I think I could usefully ask except I don't want to start
them going, if you understand me; and they weren't there at the time.
Anyway, loud music does quite well. It'd probably be brassy and or shrill;
I don't think they'd have good taste up there whatever Dante said; but now
I'm wondering if it might be more... I don't know... Celine Dion. Or Kylie.
Facing the love or wrath of god to "You should be so lucky"
Cheers
L
On 12 August 2015 at 16:16, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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 aliveā¦
>
> 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
> >
> > L
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> > On 12 August 2015 at 11:54, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >> -----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*
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> [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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