.....Hello, I'm generally not very good when it comes to introductions, I have frequently given the impression that I'm some twisted voyeuristic pervert (which is only partly true) or found myself not introducing myself at all so that nobody does think that I am some twisted voyeuristic pervert. But I think I can overcome my shyness here, and you can all come to your own conclusions. I'm not going to go off on a long ramble about how and why and when and where I first got into B&S, beautiful though it may be, because it probably happened in the same way for most people round here. But it was 1997, just after the end of a clumsy relationship, and I decided that they were a million times preferable to the girl I fell out with (I'm trying to write a poem about her at the moment. If it works I might share it). On the topic of poetry, I really appreciated David Moore sending the Windhover by Manley Hopkins, although I have had a prejudice against him since I was put in detention at school for not learning one of his poems. I've been reading Thomas Hardy a lot lately - here is a short one: They are great trees, no doubt, by now, That were so thin in bough - That row of limes - When we housed there; I'm loth to reckon when; The world has turned so many times, So many times, since then! I like poems about trees. One thing I was wondering that no-one seems to have talked about yet is whether Stuart Murdoch is religious or ardently anti-religious. I haven't quite figured it out from If You're Feeling Sinister and The State I'm In. I'm glad Laura survived the tornado. I survived an earthquake in Cyprus the other day, but it wasn't a big one. I might not be about for a while, as I'm returning to England where I have no computer to get my A-Level results. Anyone else fretting this much? See you Alex ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+