Sometimes, do you feel that you're drifting too close to the edge? But then it's delicious. Before Ailsa left with her bride's trousseau, she held up a mirror and pointed out the correspondence between the first verses of "Slow Graffiti" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray". But the objective correlative failed. To me, it's a story of a chalice held high above a clamoring throng. The anguish is not of failed vanity. To the contrary, that much is said. But it's not the same when it's said. The beauty still lingers there. A noble mind among things lost and decayed. Here the words are like pebbles thrown one by one, spreading their rings, only merging at the edges: "I mounted the staircase and gained the upper part of the house. The high cold empy gloomy rooms liberated me and I went from room to room singing." Nancy Packer read that passage and pointed out how the sense of the adjectives complement each other but don't overlap. Don't scoff at a lover's ardor. Or do you think he really meant for us to? With love, Youn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+