'fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant' I wonder what it means: is vital information missing? Do peasants walk with their hands unfolded; innocent and open-palmed, whilst us *sophisticates* clench our fists in a grown-up manner? Is it the exposure of a mis-directed directive? On another level, I've heard of folded arms, but folded hands? How obscure. Is it a riddle? Nonsense? Rhetorical enigma or a quote from a book: an artful snippet? Relax, I suggest to myself. Just absorb what's there (I slurp coffee from a flask and gaze out of the window). Imagine the birchwoods described by Turgenev in *a Hunter's Sketches* or other landed Russians writing of the rural set-up and the peasantry. Play the woodland notion and Malaprop to 'pheasant': strutting ridiculous or resting under the fold of its wing. Think also of the word 'child' and the fondness of a parent as they walk side by side, the taller watching out for the smaller; raising to silly mores, well-meant: the improving artifice and progressive ideal. People like Lewis Grassic Gibbon (Scots writer) thought progress was bad... is this what B&S are on about? Fair enough: I wrote this in a speeding train with a plastic pen and a minidisc providing the Belle & Sebastian and now it's in E-mail format... I like progress! Does anyone know what the title means? I thought I'd get that in before any new stuff comes out. I looked up the whole phrase on sinister but there were no matches found: was it instantaneously abbreviated? Questions, questions, questions... and what's the photo of the almost-mirror and the eyeliner? and is the picture with musicians on the stairs all dressed-up a reference to that film that starred Klaus Kinski's daughter in a gorilla outfit in a big white clapboard house in, maybe...the Hamptons? Sincerely, Gordon http://members.netscapeonline.co.uk/gogron/Gordon's/index.html Once I have acquired manners and a cause, it is my aim to become a gentleman anarchist. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the 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 +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+