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Tuesday, September 17, 2002 SORRY......we are off for whenever....we have some heartrending medical problems with the Babe...which are getting worse.....so.cannot really find the space for this for a while posted by thomas | 10:52 AM Sunday, September 08, 2002 Today's variorum tip: The original version of The Minister has : "He never listened to the moor's Silence speaking to the slow Silence within...".. This was first changed to "He never listened to the moor's/Music calling to the hushed/Music within and finally to.. "the hill's/ Music..." As you know extant substantive alterations to texts are unusual. posted by thomas | 7:57 PM Saturday, September 07, 2002 THE SHAME OF CRAIG RAINE and some other nice things..including lots of pictures!! posted by thomas | 7:10 AM Thursday, September 05, 2002 Here is a QUESTION for all you scholars about to turn in for another long instructional haul......... WHAt does............"the brimmed rabbit" MEAN?? And I wont tell you in which poem to FIND IT This brought on by my friend Peter who said: You could launch a hundred websites and weblogs on phrases from RS!! So we started with The Brimmed Rabbit which sounds sort of a cross between Beachcomber and a Fulham Road Pub, but also with poachers overtones. (Someone in Ynys Mon wrote a book about poachers and quoted that poem... I mean: Turning aside, never meeting In the still lanes Then...the strict palate..green aisles...green categories... the incorrigible cuckoo .. inaudible screaming .. brushed eyes...sharptooth (no orthodontists should apply) atreeundressing....thewayofit...greatwaters... (www.greywater(s) appears to be an effluvient treatment process ...love's mirror ... love's lookingglass ...the lit bush.....and then we came to The Bright Field and lo and behold there IS a weblog called that! themos100's Xanga Site and it is nice to find someone over the age of thirtysomething also writing these things!...and if you trawl around there..yes he was reading RS. posted by thomas | 6:43 AM Monday, September 02, 2002 Kevin Perryman BABEL Verlag has kindly (and at vast expense-what is the problem with EU postal services?) sent me copies of Das Helle Feld, Frieze and Laubbaum Sprache. I am slowly building another set of books. I should probably try and replace RS's library too-the contents of which I am probably the only person who can remember! Somewhere in it there is a copy of Dock Leaves with a list of books 'to buy', and on the cover of a proof copy of SATYT there was a booklist too. Maybe Peter has them? In later life he was very averse to buying books, preferring the lottery of Gwynedd's mobile library. Though he did take during the 'CND' years to gooing to the library in Penlan street. I think he hardly ever bought a book in Bangor, though he did go to the bookshop...see this quote from a letter dated Monday 23rd (1988?):.. Thank you for your letter.....I was in Bangor a week ago. The impression I got from Galloways was that, apart from Faber perhaps, they don't re-order.The last time I was there-many months ago-there was 1 copy of Tomlinson's 'Collected Poems'. Since someone was foolish enough to buy that, the niche is now empty.The same applies to the one or two Bloodaxe that they had............ posted by thomas | 10:47 PM The Vicar will now lead us In prayer. Where to, Lord, who have put Yourself so close we Have nowhere to go to Find you. Take our hand, Indeed! You have no hand To hold us by, no voice To address us. All your thoughts Are closed to us and your ways Strange. Our missiles return Empty; the microscope proves You are not. If I should speak To them, Lord, how will they hear You breathing, as I do myself? posted by thomas | 10:04 PM |
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