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Was playing Pound reading Usura to a class of the French yesterday, and listening to him roll his "rr"s, partly, it seems, as an aid to timing. Someone asked about this and I remarked how Pound seemed to have a bit of the Yeats style in his reading -- not regarding the "rr"s I mean the general use of taut intonation - and his British colleague Basil Bunting had, so to speak, fallen on his rrs: that is, picked up a bit of Pound's reading habits in turn, including something of the intonation and also that tendency to make the "r" into a tiny duration effect. So I imitated "Braag sweet tenorrr bull" for them. Rrrrric? Not really a propos of signs (shurely a bit of Private Eye influence on our list here, Ed?), I overheard someone in a cinema queue say once, "Errol Flynn? He died in real life, you know." Doug %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%