| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/8:02 AM |
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Men do spend a lot of time denying things to themselves and other people. There's some sort of fear of the self. I don't think even freud or Jung ever really got to grips with why men make such hard work of things.
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/8:00 AM |
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It's true, we do spend a lot of our male lives denying things to ourselves. I don't know why.
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/7:52 AM |
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My main thing is being unable to look at myself - I just find it much easier to project everything onto other people. No centre, you see, just a big observing eye. I've tried the gutter and it just pissed me off. Whoa, I'm feeling confessional today!
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/7:41 AM |
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You're too too kind, Mrs God, thank you. But you're very far from incompetent. And I write about things other than myself because I find it easier, which might say something about my precarious state!
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/6:14 AM |
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You're probably much better for it, believe me. I'm going to try the port/tiramisu combination. Yum.
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/4:11 AM |
Good choice of cheese. I'm a Stilton man myself but a nice floppy brie, lovely... Yep, I think the names of Swansea and Willesden Green are going to be quite alien to our transatlantic friends.
I must be off actually. I actually have some work to do beofer lunch. How uncivilised.
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/4:07 AM |
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| Re: a comment on Noblesse Oblige by Christof |
25-Sep-02/4:04 AM |
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I don't know what I like more - Dickinson's big white teeth, his tan or those incredible multi-coloured specs. None of which, I suspect, was as cheap as chips. Glad you liked the pome - partially inspired, I must admit, by that programme on girls at St Hilda's Oxford. Did you see it? I met lots like that when I was at Ox and some things never change.
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| Re: a comment on The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones |
25-Sep-02/3:59 AM |
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You should've left it on!
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| Re: a comment on WLPAN by Nicholas Jones |
25-Sep-02/3:57 AM |
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Same for me! - 5 to 12. You catch me in an expansive pre-lunch mood... My grandmother was Welsh, which makes me only very slightly Welsh and I don't really feel it all. Only sometimes I get a little twinge of it. I got one from your poem.
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| Re: The Nights Draw In by Nicholas Jones |
25-Sep-02/3:55 AM |
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Thanks especially for the car park attendant's jacket. This is a very warm poem despite the coldness of its subject.
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| Re: WLPAN by Nicholas Jones |
25-Sep-02/3:51 AM |
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Why do all the best Welsh poets write in English even when, like R.S. Thomas, their first langauge is Welsh? It's a vexed question - I looked at this in my thesis on Edward Thomas and couldn't really come up with one answer. The Welsh language is under siege, in literature at least, and has adopted a very insular mentality. The eisteddfod is such a retrograde institution, but what is the way forward? I like your poem. Speaks the very small bit of Welsh in me.
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| Re: Regime Change by Nicholas Jones |
25-Sep-02/3:44 AM |
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Did you hear hear Mr Blair banging on about 'regime change' on the news last night?
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| Re: The Masonic Underling & the 33 degree by horus8 |
25-Sep-02/3:39 AM |
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Baffled by Royalflesh's comment, but thinking this poem is great
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| Re: glory bar realities by royalflesh |
25-Sep-02/3:20 AM |
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This is a real progression from your last poem on this theme - smashing. Bleak though.
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| Re: M&Ms by knickytoy |
25-Sep-02/3:18 AM |
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You are some kind of sugar addict. I like the manic hunger of this
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| Re: At my grandmother's aging sight by vulcan |
24-Sep-02/8:55 AM |
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Haven't I voted on this before? I like your relation of human age to geological time at the end and the general fear of being old.
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| Re: a comment on Taffy by knickytoy |
24-Sep-02/8:46 AM |
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Hey thnaks for that. I don't think we have this in Britain at all but it looks delicious - related to toffee, but the salt water component is unique. Yummmmm. Nearly as good as dirty toenails.
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| Re: a comment on Taffy by knickytoy |
24-Sep-02/8:36 AM |
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BUT WHAT IS TAFFY? Please!
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| Re: a comment on Trespasser at the Men's Bathing Pond by Christof |
24-Sep-02/8:35 AM |
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No I haven't read that, and I've read quite a lot of Wells. I'll have to look that out. Thanks for the vote!
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