ok. hi there. I have about fifteen minutes available in which to write such as I have to say. In moments like these I see the meaning in the words of T.S.Eliot: 'Midwinter spring is its own season/ Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,/ Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.' The eternal strangeness of time and people and being. Or perhaps I ought to translate more directly from Eliot: the seasons are general descriptions of time and state but do not describe an individual/ the word 'Sempiternal' means 'enduring constantly' and derives from late Middle English from the Old French *sempiterne* = late [from the shorter version of the Oxford English Dictionary] The rest of that line you might presume to translate correctly. The third line 'Suspended in time, between pole and tropic' in which T.S. perhaps was, for the sake of modernity disinclined to change the comma for a semi-colon, is clearly referencing wild (as in the distance between the humours of 'pole' and 'tropic' and the physical distance and the enduration of such a travel) swings of mood: childhood is not so long ago, after all. I now have five minutes, a haircut (leaving the fringe) the day off and dressed immaculately in a white cuff-linked shirt; grey woven tie and black suit in heavy cloth. On the suggestion of my mother, I have taken off the waistcoat because the entirety of the appearance produced an almost funereal aspect. No funerals or anything: I am over-dramatic in demeanour and happy, but curious, to be alive. But I am. I'll tell you later:) Gordon +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+