On Thu, 15 May 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:57:03 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Keston Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: orpheus <[log in to unmask]>
> > Cc: british n irish poets <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: Re: Gen Repression
> > Reply-to: Keston Sutherland <[log in to unmask]>
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> > - Cliff: by "fag end", I'm pretty sure that Robin meant to conjure up not
> > any homophobic denigration, but simply the metaphor of a cigarette stub
> > after the usefulness of the actual 'fag' (do you call cigarettes fags in
> > Canada?) has run out, been smoked. This is a common enough simile. No
> > offence meant, I'm sure.
> >
> >
> >
> > Keston.
> >
> >
> Thank you, Keston. If anyone is in any doubt, still, about what I
> meant by "fag-end", I`m happy to confirm, jesus wept, that I had,
> would you believe it,
> cigarette butts in mind.
>
> Robin
>
>
> enough to read your post and that this time he doesn`t look back
>
And "Jesus wept" is the shortest sentence in the New Testament
somebody whispers in my ear! There is of course "Amen." but a sentence
needs subject and predicate so I reckon this is the go. Don't you?
That is, to get things back to language and not "language". Oh, dear
me.
Yours
John Kinsella
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